Mitt Romney’s campaign raised $14.2 million in the third quarter filing period, putting him about $3 million behind Rick Perry over the same span.
“We are proud of the $32 million we have raised for the campaign so far. This is just the start of the effort to help fuel Mitt Romney’s message that will defeat President Obama next November,” Spencer Zwick, Romney’s national finance director, said in a press release on Friday.
Perry raised $17 million and hoarded most of it, some $15 million, leaving him with plenty of cash to keep his struggling campaign humming through the first primaries. Romney has $14.65 million cash on hand as well. But they’ll have to contend with a very flush President Obama, whose campaign raised $42.8 million this quarter and about $27 million for the DNC.
