Updated at 2:18 p.m.
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann's campaign has raised about $5.4 million since July, campaign spokesman Sergio Gor said Tuesday night.
That's more than any Minnesota congressional candidate has raised in an entire election -- Bachmann took in $3.5 million in 2008. The $5 million boost brings Bachmann's fundraising total this cycle to just about $10 million.
During the last three-month filing period this spring, Bachmann raised $1.7 million.
The Sixth District is already the most expensive congressional race in the country. Bachmann's DFL opponent, Tarryl Clark, has not yet reported her fundraising stats but had a "record setting quarter with over 44,000 individual donors," said Clark spokeswoman Carrie Lucking.
Gor said the Bachmann campaign still has more than $3.4 million cash on hand. The exact number will be available along with the full FEC report, which is due out later this week.
Dave Levinthal, a spokesman for the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based watchdog group that tracks campaign finance, said the sum is staggering considering the average winner of a House race raised $1.4 million in the entire 2008 cycle.
"The people who watch and care about national politics are going to probably do a double take when they see this number," Levinthal said.
