U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper’s campaign said Monday that the Colorado Democrat brought in more than $1.5 million in the second quarter and finished the fundraising period with more than $2.7 million on hand for his 2026 reelection bid.

The quarter’s haul pushes the former two-term governor’s total fundraising since his election to the Senate in 2020 past $4.7 million. Hickenlooper raised just over $1 million in the year’s first quarter.

A spokesman for the Hickenlooper campaign said 93.5% of contributions received in the latest quarter were for $100 or less, with donations posted from 56 of Colorado’s 64 counties.

National election forecasters rate Colorado’s U.S. Senate seat as solidly in the Democrats’ corner in 2026, in part because Republicans haven’t won a major statewide race in more than a decade.

“Republicans recently passed their reckless and wildly unpopular budget bill that flies in the face of our Colorado values,” Hickenlooper said in a statement. “Coloradans are fired up. We’re proud to have their support and to fight alongside them.”

Hickenlooper’s off-year fundraising has so far lagged the quarterly totals posted by U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet in the Democrat’s 2022 reelection campaign. Hickenlooper, however, plans to report having about $400,000 more cash on hand than Bennet had at the same point in 2021.

The GOP has yet to field a formally announced challenger to Hickenlooper, though last week state Rep. Janak Joshi, who lost a 2024 primary bid for the U.S. House, filed paperwork to run for the seat.

When he won his first Senate term in 2020, Hickenlooper defeated Republican incumbent Cory Gardner by 9.5 percentage points. Two years later, Bennet won reelection to a third term over GOP nominee Joe O’Dea by 14.5 percentage points. Bennet, whose current Senate term is up in 2028, is running for governor in next year’s election.

Congressional candidates’ campaign finance reports covering the three-month period from April 1 to June 30 are due to the Federal Election Commission by midnight Tuesday. Candidates for state-level office face the same deadline with the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office.