POLITICAL LEDGER

UPDATED: McDaniel campaign finance report out

Geoff Pender
The Clarion-Ledger
State Sen. Chris McDaniel, R-Ellisville, speaks before a crowd of partisan supporters gathered on the south lawns of the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., as part of the Tea Party Express that bused into the state Thursday, April 24, 2014, promoting their theme of fighting for liberty and constitutional conservatism. McDaniel, is running against incumbent U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss. The Tea Party Express are holding events in 10 states as they seek to rally voters around candidates the Tea Party is backing in contested Senate and House races. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Chris McDaniel's July quarterly filing with the Federal Election Commission is now out, showing he raised about $1.2 million from April 1 through June 30, and spent about $860,000.

He ended the period with $386,156 cash on hand and an outstanding loan from McDaniel to his campaign of $100,100.

McDaniel at the latest filing has raised a total of about $2.7 million for his U.S. Senate campaign. He's recently been trying to raise money for a legal challenge of the results of the June 24 primary runoff, where he lost to Cochran by about 7,600 votes.

See his full report here.

ORIGINAL POST: U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran's latest campaign finance report is out. Doesn't appear challenger Chris McDaniel's is up yet on the Federal Election Commission site. They were due to be filed Tuesday, but there's typically a lag time on when they're posted.

Cochran's report shows his campaign has raised and borrowed a total of $5.6 million from last year through June 30 for his re-election bid. He had about $710,000 cash on hand.

See Cochran's new report here.

A Cochran spokesman on Wednesday said the campaign has not yet filed an amended report with the FEC to correct what it had called a "screw up" with its reporting, showing 'reimbursements' of more than $50,000 that fueled more allegations of vote buying in the runoff. The campaign said an amended report will be released soon, and provided to media.

Outside groups spent at least $12 million on the GOP primary.