By Alina Selyukh
WASHINGTON, April 13 (Reuters) – The Republican National
Committee said on Friday it raised $13.7 million in March, its
biggest haul so far this campaign season.
The committee, an engine of Republican Party fundraising for
races for the U.S. Congress, has been digging itself out of a
multimillion-dollar debt and on Friday said it owed $9.9 million
at the end of March — $1 million less than a month earlier.
The committee started fundraising jointly this month with
Mitt Romney, the party’s likely presidential nominee. It had
$32.7 million in cash on hand at the end of March.
In February, the RNC reported receiving $10.7 million in
contributions and $26.7 million in cash on hand.
Its counterpart across the party line, the Democratic
National Committee, received $7.1 million in contributions in
February, with $21.2 million left in cash on hand at the end of
that month. The DNC had $5.8 million in debt.
The RNC and the DNC are due to file their official March
fundraising reports with the Federal Election Commission on
April 20.
(Additional reporting Alexander Cohen; Editing by David
Brunnstrom)
