Val Demings, Marco Rubio each top $30M raised in Senate battle

Democratic Rep. Val Demings’ Senate campaign raised more than $10 million in the first quarter of 2022, and Republican Sen. Marco Rubio grabbed $5.8 million. That put both of them over $30 million raised in the 2022 U.S. Senate money chase.

Both candidates also have been spending furiously on their campaigns. As a result, on April 1 both were sitting on about $13 million.

The $30 million apiece raised by the leading Senate candidates in Florida makes the Rubio-Demings contest the only Senate battle in the country where both candidates are anywhere near that stratosphere of fundraising.