Fundraising for crowded Missouri US Senate race begins
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri candidates for U.S. Senate are raking in money to fuel what likely will be an expensive race for retiring Sen. Roy Blunt's seat.
Campaign finance reports were due Thursday. Missouri's Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt says he raised about $1.3 million since he entered the race in late March.
Republican Rep. Vicky Hartzler raised about $890,000 since April.
And Democrat Lucas Kunce brought in about $630,000 in the most recent quarter.
Mark McCloskey, a St. Louis personal injury lawyer who gained national attention after he and his wife waved guns at racial injustice protesters, says he raised nearly $550,000.
