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Subscribe to RSSBEDFORD NH—Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman's presidential campaign posted underwhelming fundraising numbers Friday as the GOP race for the presidential nomination kicks into high gear.
The former Utah governor's campaign reported raising $2.26 million in the third quarter, according to its forthcoming Federal Election Commission filing. That's wasn't good enough to keep his campaign out of debt; Huntsman reported $890,000 in debt and just $320,000 in cash on hand as of the end of September.
Huntsman, the son of a billionaire, also contributed $2.25 million of his own money to his campaign, despite earlier vows not to tap into his family's fortune to boost his White House campaign.
"The actual results did not match the pledges our campaign had received, so we fell below our anticipated fundraising total," Huntsman spokesman Tim Miller told NBC News.
By comparison, Mitt Romney and Rick Perry raised approximately $15 million each in the third quarter.
Huntsman has declared a "singular focus" on New Hampshire, telling NBC News he "needs to do well here" to move ahead with his White House bid. The campaign recently moved its national headquarters from Orlando to Manchester, shedding several staff members in the process.
The campaign is already looking ahead toward the fourth quarter, citing "positive momentum" since the conclusion of Q3, which has included Huntsman's unveiling of his foreign policy plan last week and fresh New Hampshire poll numbers that range from, 4 to 10 percent in support. Nationally, however, Huntsman remains in the low single digits.
"Our campaign has reorganized to become more nimble with a focus on success in New Hampshire and our fundraising this first two weeks of this quarter has reflected that," Miller said.
Huntsman has not yet run any television ads in New Hampshire, telling NBC News today in Concord, "Well, we hope to, we hope to."
However, with these paltry fundraising figures, the campaign is likely to rely its outside super PAC, Our Destiny PAC, for help. The organization has not signaled it will run advertising as of this week.
The former Ambassador to China wrapped up a six-day campaign swing through the Granite State today. He will return on Monday and host a town hall meeting in Hopkinton on Tuesday evening, in protest of the Nevada GOP debate on the same evening.
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Stick a fork in Huntsman... he's done!
I also heard the current flavor of the week, only raised a couple of hundred thousand...
I wonder why that is?
The 'Hurricane' will soon be down graded to a tropical depression... lol
Obama's adminstration haults part of the Health Care Law
Hey Feisty,
Now I know where you got your moniker, "Feisty"
Although I find you distasteful, I must give you props.
Out numbered, fighting hard in what you believe in, is very commendable.
thetotas -- You are in the wrong thread. This isn't the article on the health care law. This is about Huntsman. (wink, wink)
The TeaPeople will never forgive Huntsman for being a part of the Presidents Administration!
More importantly he's not radical or crazy.
yeh true like you always stay on topic. (wink, wink)
Sad that Mr. Huntsman can not gain any traction. He has so much more to offer than most of those running for the GOP nomination.
Do you mean his family's "billions?"
HUNTSMAN IS PROBABLY THE BEST CHOICE
when dealing with Foreign policies
too bad Obama didn't ask his advise
BUT THEN Obama DON'T ASK FOR ADVISE
he thinks he knows it already
HISTORY WILL EVENTUALLY SHOW
HOW LITTLE HE DID KNOW
and it is too bad he could have been a good president
He is still likable don't know many who dislike him personally
BUT his policies STINK
a mormom in the tolerant republican party winning the south...herman cain oh okay don't let the history of the last 150 years get in the way of the alternate reality you guys live in ...come on romney in the south...better than obama quit you're killing me.
Jon... done! I thought Rick was in bad shape... at least he can keep the office lights turned on.
Time to get money out of politics on both sides of the aisle, sign the petition at getmoneyout.com and tell everyone you know.
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Jobs are not coming back! Jobs went overseas for cheap wages. We can not compete with china wages of 10 cents per hour. This is not a republican or Democrat fault,we have a global economy. Too many people not enough to go around. An still people continue to breed like rats.
desperation doesnot breed a good canidiate,,,the gop has no message to sell that whole teaparty anti goverment message has become something that has widened the gulf inside the gop....and it can't be bridged...law of unintended consequences has created two factions that wont work together ...the establishment rep and the teaparty...perry wasn't the first girl they the gop picked to go to the prom ....because it took the failure of the others to even bring him in.....I don't see a solution to the divide in the party...i see romney and a teaparty palin...third party. splitting the vote because remember in the gop compromise is a bad word...and the teaparty doesn't care about what happens as long as the camera stays on em...
you need to stop worrying about obama and take care of the pox that is the republican party....that whole anti jobs program of boehner and his house 11% approval obama polls great compared to that and we're for the rich and tax cuts and loopholes...seems to be really selling with the vast majority of americans lol lol lol...put the crack pipe down guys it's only going to get worst if the house republican wait another year without any action on jobs 11% will go down and people will have to decide why...
"Hopeless Huntsman" is poltically done, and economically he is even more hopless. "Hopeless Huntsman" is hanging onto the economic failure of "Tinkle Down" economics. This failed economic plan has brought down the GOP/RNC because it has caused the largest dsbt crises in US History. That is fact!