RICHMOND, Va. — Yesterday, just days after Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger officially secured the Democratic nomination to serve as the 75th Governor of Virginia, her campaign announced a record-breaking fundraising quarter powered by a surge of grassroots donations from Virginians.
The campaign received more than 50,000 grassroots contributions in the first three months of 2025. This show of momentum comes after Spanberger turned in more than 40,000 petition signatures — more than four times the number required to get on the ballot in November for Governor of Virginia — collected by more than 1,300 volunteers in communities across the Commonwealth.
Richmond Times-Dispatch: Spanberger says she has raised $6.7 million in governor’s race this year
Monday, April 7, 2025
Former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-7th, says she raised $6.7 million for her campaign for governor in the first three months of this year, boosting the Democratic nominee’s fundraising to $16.3 million since launching her bid 16 months ago.
Spanberger, who stepped down from Congress in January after three terms, more than doubled the first-quarter funding haul of Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, the Republican nominee.
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Spanberger’s campaign said her haul was the largest of any statewide candidate in the first quarter in Virginia history, based on contributions and excluding self-funding.
In the first quarter of the 2021 race, former Gov. Terry McAuliffe raised $4.2 million, more than his four Democratic rivals combined. In that quarter, Glenn Youngkin — who would defeat McAuliffe — raised $2.2 million, and fellow Republican candidate Pete Snyder raised $1.6 million – though Youngkin lent himself an additional $5.5 million in the three-month period and Snyder lent himself an extra $5.2 million, according to the Virginia Department of Elections.
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VoteVets announced in February that it had made a $500,000 contribution to the Democrat’s campaign, which it called the largest single donation in its 20-year history.
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Spanberger’s campaign focused on its small donations — more than 50,000 contributions of $100 or less — as a measure of grassroots energy in an election year that is shaping up as an early referendum on President Donald Trump’s second term.
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