U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s fundraising advantage grew only wider in the opening months of 2024 over the two notable Republicans attempting to supplant the incumbent from her seat in Congress this fall, according to campaign filings submitted to the Federal Election Commission this week.

Perez, the first-term Skamania Democrat representing Washington’s Third Congressional District, reported raising $1.16 million in the first three months of 2024 according to a quarterly filing from her campaign. The $3.03 million that the Perez campaign had in its coffers at the end of March dwarfed that of her two most prominent challengers, Joe Kent and Leslie Lewallen, in what is expected to be one of the most closely watched races in the country come November.

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