With a second-quarter balance of $1,451,944, Governor Gina Raimondo’s fundraising remains robust at the mid-point in her four-year term as governor.
Raimondo began the quarter with a balance of just over $1 million — $1,010,058. During Q2, she received $506,168 in contributions from individuals and $19,200 from political action committees. The governor’s fundraising success can be seen in how her second quarter campaign finance report is 217 pages.
Although Raimondo downplayed her fundraising during a recent interview, calling it a standard part of politics, the size of her war chest could discourage opponents from challenging the first-term Democrat during the state’s 2018 gubernatorial election.
Raimondo beat Republican Cranston Mayor Allan Fung by four points during Rhode Island’s 2014 election for treasurer. By winning, she became the state’s first woman governor and the first Democrat to win election as governor since Bruce Sundlun in 1992.
