Andy Kim has $1.2 million warchest four years before his next election

Kim doesn’t have to face New Jersey voters until 2030

Rep. Andy Kim at a 2024 U.S. Senate debate hosted by the New Jersey Globe, On New Jersey, and the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics at Rider University. (Photo: Kevin Sanders for the New Jersey Globe).

U.S. Senator Andy Kim, who is not up for re-election until 2030, has nearly $1.2 million cash-on-hand, according to fundraising reports filed today with the Federal Election Commission.

Kim raised $303,827 during the second quarter of 2026 and has raised $1,741,610 so far this cycle.  He spent $193,036 in April, May, and June, and over $1.42 million since his last election.

For comparison purposes, Kim’s predecessor in the New Jersey U.S. Senate seat, Bob Menendez, had a warchest of $772,668 at the same point in 2020.

Menendez had $4.75 million banked at the end of June 2022 – just weeks after the FBI executed a search warrant at his Englewood Cliffs home, which uncovered significant amounts of cash and gold bars.

A former Obama White House staffer, Kim was elected to the House in New Jersey’s 3rd district, ousting a two-term incumbent in 2018 and re-elected in 2020 and 2022 in a district that Donald Trump carried twice.  He entered the Senate race in September 2023, one day after the Justice Department unsealed a corruption indictment against Menendez.  Kim raised $1 million in his week as a U.S. Senate candidate.

Four days before the filing deadline, Menendez announced that he would not run in the Democratic primary and instead would seek re-election as an independent.  He ended his campaign hours before the deadline to drop out.

Kim raised over $12.1 million for his 2024 U.S. Senate bid.  He defeated Republican Curtis Bashaw in the general election.

Editor’s note: an earlier version of this story misstated Kim’s cash-on-hand after adding an additional digit to the total.  We apologize for this mistake.  

Spread the news:

 RELATED ARTICLES

David Wildstein: David Wildstein is the Editor in Chief for the New Jersey Globe.