Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) reported raising $12.1 million in the third quarter of 2024, her best fundraising quarter of the cycle and approaching record levels seen in the 2022 Nevada Senate race.

In the third quarter of 2022, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) set a fundraising record of $15 million. Although Cortez Masto was thought to be the most vulnerable Democrat in the Senate last cycle, Rosen is one of seven tough seats that Democrats are defending — and analysts rate her re-election odds as safer than her counterparts in Michigan, Montana, Ohio and Wisconsin. That could explain Rosen’s smaller haul.

While her Republican opponent Sam Brown has not yet released his fundraising total, Rosen has outraised him in every quarter thus far — last quarter, she finished $3.6 million ahead of him, breaking Nevada fundraising records by bringing in $7.6 million in the second quarter.

Rosen entered October with $4.8 million in cash on hand. Her campaign has spent nearly $64 million through Tuesday, per political ad tracking firm AdImpact, and has over $5.6 million in reservations booked through the end of the year. She has used that financial advantage to bombard the airwaves with ads on a variety of topics, from abortion to cost of living to bipartisanship.

Campaign manager Stewart Boss said in a statement that the campaign would use its financial advantage to “continue … talking to swing voters across Nevada about the high stakes in this election” and defining Rosen as a bipartisan problem solver while tying Brown to right-wing extremism. 

Rosen’s campaign said more than 81,000 donors this quarter were first-time contributors, and that the average donation size was $37. Full details about donations to each candidate will be available by the Federal Election Commission’s Oct. 15 reporting deadline — the last campaign finance reporting requirement before the Nov. 5 election.

Polls have shown Rosen leading all cycle, though they have narrowed somewhat in recent weeks. RealClearPolling’s average for September finds Rosen with an 8.5-percentage-point lead.