Candidates for federal office have submitted their campaign finance reports to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), giving a clearer picture of their prospects for 2024.
The FEC’s filing deadline for year-end reports for 2023, which fell on Wednesday, required all candidates for federal office — including for president, the Senate and the House — to disclose their fundraising totals.
The new data comes as the presidential primaries are already well underway, and some Senate primaries will start being held in the next couple of months.
Here are six things we learned from candidates’ most recent filings:
President Biden continued to lead former President Trump in the fundraising game during the last quarter of 2023, with his principal campaign committee bringing in about $33 million. Trump, meanwhile, raised about $19 million.
That’s a significantly larger margin than the third quarter, when Biden edged out Trump with $24.8 million to the former …