Just a dozen hours after Jeff Johnson won the Republican primary for governor, both he and DFL Gov. Mark Dayton turned their sights to fundraising for the election ahead.
"Will you give $5 or more now to stop the GOP and keep building a Better Minnesota?" Dayton's campaign pleaded in an email fundraiser.
"The message really isn't' going to change," Johnson, a Hennepin County Commissioner, told reporters Wednesday. "We'll probably focus more heavily than ever on fundraising because we gotta raise a lot of money in the next 12 weeks."
Both men will need that focus. Although Dayton has raised and spent more money so far than Johnson, neither has huge cash banked for the November battle.
But will receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in state subsidies for their campaigns for agreeing to abide by spending limits that allow them to raise around $4 million.
Here are the cash they had as of their last reports. Both have raised and spent more money since then but the exact amounts are not available.
And here are more details:
Ricardo Lopez contributed to this report.
