Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign entered July with $12.2 million on hand, according to documents filed Saturday with the Federal Election Commission, a sizable sum of money the Florida Republican hopes will help him make up lost ground in his race to defeat former President Donald Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential primary.
DeSantis raised $20 million in the first five weeks of his campaign but spent $7.8 million in the same time period, the documents showed, meaning the governor on average spent roughly $1.5 million a week after entering the race.
The overall fundraising figure of $20 million — raised from when the governor entered the race on May 24th to the end of the FEC’s fundraising quarter on June 30th — matches the numbers DeSantis’ campaign announced last week. But the campaign did not say how much money it had spent or how much cash it had on hand at the end of June.
