{"id":168114,"date":"2026-04-17T01:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168114\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T01:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:28:07","slug":"rabb-tops-pa-primary-fundraising-stanford-leads-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168114\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabb tops PA primary fundraising; Stanford leads cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What questions do you have about the 2026 elections? What major issues do you want candidates to address? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania state Rep. Chris Rabb, D-Philadelphia, surged to the front of the Democratic primary fundraising race in the latest quarter, nearly doubling his closest rivals, despite a recent campaign finance scandal that drained his coffers.\n<\/p>\n<p>Rabb, who identifies as the progressive candidate in the race, brought in nearly $385,000 between Jan. 1 and March 31.\n<\/p>\n<p>That number was around twice as much as both of his primary competitors \u2014 state Sen. Sharif Street, who previously led the field in fundraising, with $199,000, and Dr. Ala Stanford, with $211,000, in the same period of time.\n  <\/p>\n<p>While Rabb led in new money raised, Stanford entered April with the strongest overall financial position, partly thanks to a $250,000 loan she gave her campaign last year. Her campaign reported about $450,000 cash on hand, compared to Rabb\u2019s $236,000. Street ended the quarter with $263,000.\n<\/p>\n<p>Rabb\u2019s total was especially notable because it came after his team disclosed that his former treasurer allegedly made more than $160,000 in unauthorized withdrawals from the campaign account last year.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What questions do you have about the 2026 elections? What major issues do you want candidates to address?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25694,28,7529,30,29],"class_list":["post-168114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-elections-2026","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-elections","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}