EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Tom Cotton unveils historic $10 million in fundraising across campaign accounts

Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.), the Senate GOP’s Conference Chair, is up for reelection in November, and while he is expected to coast to reelection, he isn’t leaving anything up to chance.

Cotton’s latest fundraising numbers, obtained exclusively by the Washington Reporter, put him in a category of one: no Arkansas senator has ever raised as much money across all campaign accounts as he has. In the most recent fundraising quarter, Cotton raised $827,000, and he has over $10 million at his disposal. 

“Cotton has more than a ten to one cash on hand advantage over his opponent — the Democrat who last made news for telling Arkansans to stop eating meat to fight global warming,” a Cotton advisor told the Reporter. “He is set up well for the home stretch of the campaign.”

Hallie Shoffner, a left-wing activist who spent years working on George Soros-aligned causes, is Cotton’s underfunded Democratic opponent. Shoffner’s fundraising, the Arkansas Reporter uncovered, “decline[d] as she faces criticism for donating to Kamala Harris 25 times.” 

The Reporter previously confirmed that Shoffner admitted to voting for Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024; that alone could doom her in a state that President Donald Trump carried by over 30 points. 

But Shoffner’s ties to Soros’s network and Harris are far from the only liabilities that Cotton could use his millions to litigate in front of voters. The Washington Free Beacon previously reported that she wants to defund ICE, backed a carbon tax that would devastate Arkansas farmers, and even hired a marketing firm to make her more palatable to rural voters. 

Cotton, on the other hand, has been an electoral powerhouse in Arkansas. After he easily ousted incumbent Sen. Mark Pryor (D., Ark.) in 2014, Democrats did not even run an opponent against him in 2020. Cotton’s 2014 victory was one of the turning points in Arkansas history, as the state shifted drastically from supporting Democrats, including its former governor, Bill Clinton, to being one of the most reliably Republican states in the country.