Freshman Minnesota Republican Chip Cravaack pulled in $393,753 in the second quarter, raising his total haul so far to nearly $1.4 million in his first bid to win reelection in a traditionally DFL-leaning congressional district in northern Minnesota. Cravaack's latest campaign finance report, released Friday, shows him with $898,681 in cash on hand, more than three times as much as former state Sen. Tarryl Clark, who is expected to be the top fundraiser among three DFLers competing in an Aug. 14 primary. Clark ended the quarter with $259,022 in the bank after bringing in $232,128 in the second quarter, which ended on June 30. Clark's most recent fundraising effort, well short of Cravaack's, brings her total haul in the race to a little mover $1million. Clark's report, released Thursday, shows that she also has been spending significant money since her last report was released in early April, when she had $418,266 in the bank. Clark, who lost to Minnesota Republican Michele Bachmann in 2010, has run three TV ads over the past four weeks in the lead-up to the primary election. Clark is challenging DFL-endorsed former congressman Rick Nolan in next month's primary election, along with former Duluth City Council President Jeff Anderson. Nolan and Anderson have yet to report their most recent fundraising totals. Anderson and Nolan were both in the five-figures in cash on hand at the end of the last reporting period on March 31, making it unlikely that the combined DFL totals will match Cravaack's in what should be one of the most competitive congressional races in the nation. But in the new era of the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, the candidates' fundraising will only be part of the picture. Both sides are expected to benefit from significant expenditures by outside groups, much of it funded by anonymous donors.