It remains to be seen whether any amount of TV ads can dislodge Doug Mastriano and Lou Barletta from the top of the polls. Both are staunch allies of former President Donald Trump.
Dave White spent most of the $3 million he loaned his campaign last year — and then chipped in another $1 million to his war chest. Lou Barletta and Doug Mastriano struggled to raise as much money as other top contenders, but they remain the best-known Republican candidates and possibly the front-runners.
Whoever wins will take on state Attorney General Josh Shapiro, the presumptive Democratic nominee, who had $16 million in his campaign account at the close of the three-month period ending March 28 — a huge financial advantage over his prospective GOP rivals.Barletta, Mastriano, and White as “career politicians” who couldn’t be trusted. That salvo prompted White’s campaign to call McSwain a flailing candidate.
He raised more than $1.4 million last quarter — almost as much as he raised all of last year. And he was able to save much of his haul for the home stretch, thanks to an allied political group, Commonwealth Leaders Fund, that spent $5.9 million on TV ads and other expenses to support McSwain. Commonwealth Leaders Fund’s biggest donor is the billionaire investor Jeffrey Yass, cofounder of the Bala Cynwyd-based trading firm Susquehanna International Group.
Other candidates had to spend more to keep pace. White, a former Delaware County councilman who owns an HVAC contracting firm, raised almost $800,000 on top of the $1 million he loaned his campaign. He spent $4.1 million and had $171,000 at the beginning of April — about one-tenth of McSwain’s available cash.The other big spender in the first quarter was state Senate leader Jake Corman.
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