Jones has over $4.2 million to spend with the general election 16 months away

U.S. Senator Doug Jones, D-Alabama is drawing contributions from Democratic donors from all over the country in his bid for re-election in 2020.

Senator Jones reported to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) a final cash balance at the end of June of $4,259,540.86 in cash on hand after a busy first half of 2019.

Jones reported total receipts of $3,655,901.69 during the first half of the year. Jones’ campaign reports total contributions of $3,417,495.08. This includes total individual contributions of $2,599,782.14 and other committee contributions of $817,712.94. Jones reported no contributions from Party Committees. He also reported transfers from other authorized committees of $233,619.60 and other receipts of $4,787. Jones reported no loans. The campaign reported expenditures of $1,527,526.54. Most of that was operating expenses, but there was also contribution refunds of $39,286.75.

Jones reports 14.944 individual contributions; however, he received a sizable number of contributions from ACTBLUE: including a $5,600 donation and over 107 $2,800 contributions. Hundreds of ACTBLUE contributions are mixed throughout the Jones report. ACTBLUE is a Massachusetts based group. It has received $1,261,994,019.93 in receipts in 2017 and 2018. ACTBLUE has contributed $1,251,055.73 to Democratic candidates and progressive causes, including many Democratic-aligned PACs during the two-year reporting cycle ending on December 31.

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