The latest complete cash balances in this comparison end on October 14. Rogers’s principal campaign committee reported $3,902,505.76; El-Sayed’s reported $2,734,028.89. Both pre-general reports cover October 1–14 and were filed October 22.
The reports also show how those balances developed. El-Sayed’s committee reported more receipts during the covered period, but it began with less cash and reported more disbursements. A fundraising comparison alone would miss those differences.
| Report measure | Rogers | El-Sayed |
|---|---|---|
| Beginning cash | $6,527,471.03 | $3,792,203.46 |
| + Receipts | $2,450,732.26 | $8,655,305.30 |
| − Disbursements | $5,075,697.53 | $9,713,479.87 |
| = Ending cash | $3,902,505.76 | $2,734,028.89 |
Each cash balance reconciles to beginning cash plus receipts minus disbursements in the original FEC report.
El-Sayed’s covered late notices total $1.57 million; Rogers’s total $419,314.
The October 29 review found $1,574,992.76 in covered notices for El-Sayed and $419,314.02 for Rogers. Both sets report receipts dated October 15–26, with the latest notice filings dated October 28. Amended filings replace their originals in the totals.
FEC 48-hour notices disclose qualifying contributions of $1,000 or more, including qualifying loans and in-kind contributions, received in the late-election window. These receipts must also appear in a regular report. The notices do not establish total fundraising, spending after October 14 or a new cash balance.
Michigan’s state notices follow a separate reporting system.
In the MiTN filings checked October 29, John James’s gubernatorial committee disclosed $407,070.15 in cash contributions across six current late reports. Jocelyn Benson’s committee disclosed $642,200 across four. Both sets cover received dates October 19–27; their latest filings are October 28. Neither set reports in-kind contributions in these covered notices.
The larger state review covers 63 candidate committees. A committee with no notice located in the checked filing window cannot be treated as having raised nothing. The federal and state notice totals also use different systems and covered periods; they are not a single statewide fundraising ranking.
The outside-spending ledger measures a defined set of federal notices.
The atlas’s reconciled extraction totals $298,943,339.79 across 2,794 current processed 24/48-hour notice transactions from 142 spenders. It includes entries explicitly designated for the 2026 general election, dated January 1, 2025–October 29, 2026, for the current Michigan Senate and House nominees in the comparison.
That is a covered-notice total, not all outside spending. Regular reports, communication costs, electioneering communications, coordinated spending, state-office spending and unprocessed filings are excluded. The FEC source query supplies the underlying records; election designations and amendment handling further restrict the atlas’s retained set.
A later receipt does not establish today’s cash balance.
Cash at a reporting cutoff, money received over a period and independent spending answer different questions. Later contributions can be followed by later spending that is not yet visible in a complete report. The defensible conclusion is limited to what each dated record establishes.
The atlas’s finance chapter keeps the broader committee comparisons, reporting periods and source links available for inspection.