Democrats Ahead of Republicans in Fundraising for Colorado Gudernatorial Race

Next year’s race to replace term-limited Colorado Governor Jared Polis is shaping up to be a high-stakes Democratic showdown — while Republicans are struggling to keep up financially.

Campaign finance reports show Democratic contenders U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and Attorney General Phil Weiser far outpacing a crowded GOP field in fundraising during the latest quarter.

Weiser and Bennet together ended September with more than four-point-six million dollars in the bank — more than four times what the top Republican raised.

Bennet led in quarterly contributions, pulling in about nine hundred forty-eight thousand dollars to Weiser’s roughly eight hundred forty-seven thousand. But the senator also spent heavily — more than twice as much as Weiser over the same period.

Weiser, who entered the race in January, now holds nearly three million dollars in cash and has raised a record three-point-seven million overall — the most ever by a Colorado gubernatorial candidate this far out from Election Day. Bennet, who joined the race in April, has brought in two-point-seven million from more than eleven thousand donors.

On the Republican side, State Senator Barb Kirkmeyer of Brighton led the pack with about one hundred eighty-nine thousand dollars raised after just three weeks in the race. None of the other eighteen GOP hopefuls cracked six figures.

Colorado hasn’t elected a Republican governor in more than two decades, and national forecasters continue to rate the 2026 governor’s race as solidly Democratic.