More than four out of every 10 dollars Republican Attorney General candidate Derek Brown has raised for his campaign have come from just 22 donors. His campaign has raised six times as much cash as the four other candidates on November's ballot combined.
According to the most recent financial disclosures, Brown has raised nearly $900,000 since joining the race in January. That total does not include the $150,000 he loaned the campaign right before the June primary election.
- Twenty-two donors have contributed $10,000 or more to Brown's campaign, totaling nearly $370,000. These donations account for 41.2% of the money he's raised so far.
- Three donors have contributed $50,000 to Brown. Those contributors include Wasatch Group, the property management firm headed by Dell Loy Hansen, the Republican National Attorneys General Association and Spencer Cox's gubernatorial campaign.
- More than half of Brown's campaign cash (54.5%) has come from corporations and political action committees.
- The Utah Association of Realtors made two donations to Brown totaling $25,000.
- Just over $39,000 (4.3%) of Brown's money raised came from donors who gave $1,000 or less.
Brown's campaign also received sizeable in-kind donations to help with advertising.
- Reagan Outdoor made three in-kind donations to Brown totaling $32,250 before the June primary.
- Brown also received in-kind donations totaling $17,674.41 from the "All in for Utah" nonprofit organization headed by Owen Fuller. That organization has made $129,000 of in-kind contributions to Republican Spencer Cox's campaign this cycle.
Brown is the presumptive frontrunner in the race and is expected to prevail in November's election. The last time Utah elected a non-Republican as Attorney General was Jan Graham in 1996.
Brown's campaign spending suggests his biggest hurdle was the three-way Republican primary election. Nearly 95% of Brown's expenditures for the race, more than $1 million, came before the June primary.
Democrat Rudy Bautista's campaign disclosure shows he has raised just $100 with no expenditures.
United Utah Party nominee Michelle Quist has raised just over $130,000 for her campaign.
- More than 60% of her donations came from donors who gave less than $1,000.
- Approximately 20% of Quist's campaign cash came from donations of $100 or less.
Austin Hepworth, the unaffiliated candidate in the race, reported just over $11,000 in donations. His campaign has received over $3,300 in loans and in-kind contributions from his Believe Legal company.
2024 is the sixth time Libertarian nominee Andrew McCullough has appeared on the ballot for Attorney General. He also ran for governor in 2010. So far this year, McCullough has raised just $646.
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