Campaign finance reports show Sherrod Brown far out-raising GOP candidates [Video]

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In just six weeks, Ohio voters head to the polls to pick their party’s nominees, and the U.S. Senate race is one of the most hotly contested of the March 19 primary election. Last week the candidates turned in their year-end campaign finance reports.

The three Republicans running to challenge Democratic Ohio U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown brought in hundreds of thousands from donors, and bolstered their balance sheets with big personal loans. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose in particular, has also gotten help from outside groups.

They’ve needed all the help they can get — the GOP campaigns report spending three or four times what they brought in on political ads.

Meanwhile, the $6.6 million Brown raised in the most recent reporting period is more than triple what his challengers raised — combined.