Democratic nominees in all but one of Colorado’s eight U.S. House races more than doubled their Republican opponents’ fundraising hauls in the final quarterly reporting period before next month’s election, according to federal campaign finance reports filed this week.

The Democrats’ dominance was staggering, with the party’s congressional candidates collectively raising nearly three times as much as their Republican counterparts during the quarter ending Sept. 30. What’s more, three of the Democratic House candidates each brought in more than $2 million, while only a single Republican reported more than $1 million in contributions for the period.

The state’s congressional candidates who surpassed $2 million in receipts for the third quarter were Democrats Trisha Calvarese in the 4th Congressional District, Adam Frisch in the 3rd Congressional District and incumbent U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo in the 8th Congressional District. Frisch’s Republican opponent in the 3rd CD, Jeff Hurd, topped $1 million, and although he didn’t quite break into seven figures, state Rep. Gabe Evans, Caraveo’s GOP challenger, wasn’t too far short of the $1 million mark.

The lone exception to the Democrats’ near sweep in the quarterly cash dash was in the open, El Paso County-based 5th Congressional District, where Republican Jeff Crank, making his third run for the seat, raised almost three times as much as Democratic nominee River Gassen, a first-time candidate.

In every other district, the Democratic incumbents swamped the Republicans, bringing in many times what their challengers raised.

Taken together, Colorado’s Democratic congressional candidates raised $8,586,135 for the quarter, and the Republicans posted $2,994,585, according to Federal Election Commission reports that were due Oct. 15 at midnight.

The grand totals are somewhat skewed because the Democrats who hold five of the state’s eight House seats are all running for reelection, and incumbents tend to outperform challengers, while only one Republican — U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert — is seeking another term, though she’s doing so from a safer district than the one that elected her twice to Congress.

Calvarese, Boebert’s Democratic opponent in the heavily Republican 4th CD — covering Douglas County and the Eastern Plains — reported raising $2,689,000, almost exactly five times the $532,195 raised by Boebert. At the end of the quarter, Calvarese had $1,314,327 in the bank to Boebert’s $548,550.

As Calvarese can attest, Boebert’s prominent national profile — after grabbing headlines consistently since she ousted an incumbent Republican in 2020, her widely covered ejection from the musical “Beetlejuice” a year ago in Denver has helped keep her in the spotlight — has been a boon to Democrats running against her, helping draw small-dollar donations from across the country.

Frisch, who came within a few hundred votes beating Boebert two years ago in the Western Slope-based, Republican-leaning 3rd CD, turned that near upset into a fundraising machine, raising millions of dollars before she jumped to the safer district in January. The Democrat appears to have kept up the momentum, raising $2,242,907 in the most recent period, more than twice the $1,039,165 in contributions reported by Hurd, the state’s leading Republican fundraiser for the third quarter. Frisch reported $2,006,732 in the bank at the end of September, while Hurd had $706,422.

Caraveo, seeking a second term in the highly competitive 8th CD, which includes parts of Adams, Weld and Larimer counties, finished just behind Frisch for the quarter, with $2,214,922 in contributions. Evans, the Republican hoping to unseat her, raised $985,566. Caraveo had $2,350,096 left to spend before the election. That’s nearly three times the $821,825 Evans had in the bank. The Republican also reported $16,877 in debts, including unpaid expense reimbursements due to the candidate and a $10,000 bonus for winning the GOP primary owed by his campaign to a Texas consulting firm.

In the reliably Republican 5th CD, Crank, the GOP nominee, raised $269,830 and had $274,991 in the bank, more than three times the $77,784 raised by Gassen, his Democratic opponent, who finished the quarter with $22,121 on hand.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Jason Crow, seeking his fourth term in the Aurora-based, Democratic-leaning 6th Congressional District, raised more than twice as much as his Republican challenger, John Fabbricatore, with $325,767 in contributions to the GOP candidate’s $141,786. Crow had $1,778,512 in the bank to Fabbricatore’s $81,852.

In the state’s three other House districts, the Democrats seeking reelection swamped their Republican challengers in both contributions and cash-on-hand totals.

Running for her 15th term in Denver’s solidly Democratic 1st Congressional District, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette raised $174,303 and had $311,948 left over, while Republican Valdamar Archuleta pulled in just $3,315 and reported $2,892 in the bank.

Meanwhile, U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, who holds the Democrats’ No 4 position in House leadership and is seeking a fourth term in the heavily Democratic Boulder and Larimer county-based 2nd Congressional District, raised $459,665 and had $2,095,954 on hand. That compares to Republican Marshall Dawson’s $3,035 in fundraising and the $1,262 on his campaign’s bank statement at the end of the quarter.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen raised $401,787 in the Democratic-leaning Jefferson County-based 7th Congressional District and had $1,051,383 left to spend. Her Republican challenger, Sergei Matveyuk, raised $19,693 and finished the quarter with $18,987.

Congressional candidates are required to file pre-election reports on Oct. 24 covering campaign fundraising and spending for the first two weeks of October. After that, the next FEC deadline is Dec. 5, when the campaigns have to report campaign finance activity from Oct. 17 to Nov. 25.

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