Once again, a Democrat hoping to challenge Lauren Boebert raised more in campaign contributions than any other candidate in Colorado in the most recent fundraising quarter.

Last cycle, it was Adam Frisch, the former Aspen city councilor who bulldozed state campaign fundraising records in quarter after quarter on his way to raking in more than $17 million — nearly four times Boebert’s total 2024 fundraising and the fourth-highest total raised by any House candidate nationwide — only to lose in November to Jeff Hurd, the Republican who replaced Boebert on the ticket after she skedaddled across the state to a safer district.

This time around, first-time candidate Eileen Laubacher, a retired rear admiral and former National Security Council staffer in the Biden administration, reported raising $1.9 million in the three-month period that ended on June 30, her first quarter in the race.

It’s more than 13 times as much as the $137,000 Boebert raised in the same quarter, thought the two candidates’ cash-on-hand totals are a little closer, since the incumbent has been collecting contributions for her reelection since she won a third term in 2024.

Laubacher finished the quarter with more than $1 million in the bank, while Boebert had just over $174,000. Endorsed by Donald Trump in every election since her first run in 2020, Boebert ranks as the state’s senior elected Republican and is the only member of her party from Colorado who boasts a national profile.

Although the party’s candidates haven’t won statewide in a decade, Republicans hold four of Colorado’s eight U.S. House seats. Boebert currently represents the reddest of those, the 4th Congressional District, which encompasses suburban Douglas County and the Eastern Plains. According to the Cook Political Report, the district’s voters favored GOP candidates by 9 points, compared to the country as a whole, in the 2024 presidential election.

Boebert, for her part, won by 11.6 points last year, and Donald Trump carried the district by 18.3 points. That compares to the 29-point advantage Democrats enjoy in the state’s bluest seat, Denver’s 1st Congressional District, where Democrat Diana DeGette is seeking a 16th term.

The Democrat who lost to Boebert last fall, Trisha Calvarese, edged past the incumbent in last quarter’s fundraising, taking in just over $145,000 and finished with about $94,000 on hand. Democrat John Padora, also making his second run in the district — he finished behind Calvarese and another Democrat in the 2024 primary — raised close to $37,000 and reported a little under $16,000 left to spend.

Three other Democrats — each a statewide incumbent running statewide — joined Laubacher in the seven-figure club for the latest quarter.

Gubernatorial candidate Michael Bennet, the state’s senior U.S. senator, half way through his third term, cleared $1.7 million for the quarter, his first in the race, while his primary rival, Phil Weiser, the state’s term-limited attorney general, topped $1 million, bringing his total raised to nearly $3 million.

Weiser, however, finished the period with almost twice as much money in the bank as Bennet reported, since Weiser launched his bid to take over for term-limited Democratic Gov. Jared Polis more than three months before Bennet joined the primary in early April.

According to reports filed last week with the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office, Weiser had nearly $2.5 million cash on hand at the end of the quarter, and Bennet had over $1.3 million.

Weiser’s campaign was quick to point out the distance between his totals and the numbers posted by Bennet, who entered the race as the presumed frontrunner, a status affirmed by an internal poll released last month that showed Bennet more than 30 points ahead of Weiser among primary voters.

“We have raised substantially more money for our campaign, have substantially more cash on hand, and have more individual donors than Sen. Bennet or any candidate in this race,” Weiser taunted in a statement released alongside colorful bar charts that depicted his fundraising lead across multiple categories. “This level of support shows that we have the momentum, energy, and resources to give Colorado voters the competitive race they deserve.”

Bennet, meanwhile, focused on his campaign’s $1.7 million quarterly haul — a record sum for a Colorado candidate for governor in the second quarter of an off year, though it trailed the more than $1.9 million Weiser raised in the previous quarter.

“This record-breaking fundraising shows the strength of our movement,” Bennet said. “Together, we are forging the coalition it takes to build a Colorado where working people can get ahead and to show the entire country what leadership and hope look like, at a moment when it couldn’t matter more.”

More than a dozen Republicans are also running for governor, but the two Democrats’ totals dwarfed the numbers posted by any of their potential GOP opponents.

Just four of the GOP gubernatorial hopefuls — former U.S. Rep. Greg Lopez, state Sen. Mark Baisley, state Rep. Scott Bottoms, Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell — broke into five figures for the quarter, with each reporting contributions of less than $30,000.

Colorado has only elected one Republican governor in the last 50 years — Bill Owens, who served from 1999 to 2007 — and nonpartisan election forecasters don’t anticipate that’ll change next year.

The fourth Democrat to top $1 million in contributions for the quarter was John Hickenlooper, who is seeking a second term in the U.S. Senate. The former two-term governor raised more than $1.5 million in three months, bringing his total raised this cycle to over $4.7 million. He finished the period with $2.7 million on hand.

So far, two Republicans have filed to challenge Hickenlooper’s reelection bid — retired Army Colonel George Markert, who raised a hair under $8,000 and loaned his campaign $50,000, and former state Rep. Janak Joshi, who lost a congressional primary last year and has yet to formally launch his Senate run.

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