Graham reports ‘record-breaking’ $109M haul during 2020 campaign

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) raised a record-breaking $109.1 million for his 2020 reelection campaign, a number touted by his campaign as the most of any Republican Senate candidate in history.

Graham spent $96.4 million over the course of his reelection campaign, of which $49.1 million was spent between Oct. 1 and Nov. 5.

Of note, Graham raised the most money, $5.1 million, the day that the Senate Judiciary Committee, which he chairs, advanced Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the full Senate for a vote.

Graham’s campaign had over $11 million in cash on hand as of Nov. 23.

In addition, Graham has raised $2.4 million since Election Day to help Sens. David Perdue (R-Ga.) and Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) in critical Senate runoff races in Georgia that will determine which party controls the upper chamber.

Graham defeated Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison in November to retain his Senate seat as South Carolina had emerged as a close contest amid record fundraising. The Democrat turned heads when he raised $57 million in the third quarter of 2020 alone, setting an all-time fundraising record for a U.S. Senate candidate.

Harrison’s head-turning fundraising hauls helped fuel a closer-than-expected race and prompting warnings from Graham in the final weeks that he was getting “killed financially” by a Democratic wave of cash.

The South Carolina senator outraised Harrison from Oct. 15 to Nov. 23.