With more than a year until the midterm elections, fundraising is already ramping up in Arizona's 6th congressional district race.
According to filings with the Federal Election Commission, Democratic front-runner JoAnna Mendoza outraised Republican incumbent Juan Ciscomani in the third quarter of 2025, which lasted from July through September.
Mendoza's campaign raised about $669,000 during that time period, finishing with almost $950,000 in reserves. Ciscomani's campaign raised $458,702, plus about $90,000 from his Ciscomani Victory Fund political action committee, or PAC.
But Ciscomani still has over $2.3 million in the bank, thanks to previous fundraising and transfers from several allied PACs, including national Republican fundraising outfits.
Ciscomani Victory Fund top donors this year include several Arizona business heavyweights: car dealer Jim Click, property mogul Humberto Lopez, window and door manufacturer Tom Regina. The three donors and their spouses gave $50,000 per couple. Arizona Cardinals executive Michael Bidwill gave $25,000.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobbying group, gave Ciscomani's campaign committee $7,000.
Meanwhile, Mendoza's top individual donors were from Massachusetts: former Bain Capital co-chairman Josh Bekenstein and his wife Anita Bekenstein, who jointly gave $14,000. Mendoza also received around $17,300 from New Politics, an organization that supports veterans running for office.
Mendoza served 20 years in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. She later worked as a veterans services staffer for then-Arizona Rep. Tom O'Halleran.
None of Mendoza's opponents in the district's Democratic primary have reported raising significant funds.
Mendoza's campaign disbursements shed some light on the first-time candidate's political organization. Her campaign has paid over $550,000 to the Washington, D.C. political consultancy Grassroots Analytics. It's spent about $52,000 in payroll for Arizona political organizer James Gravitt, who has worked for 2018 Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Garcia and 2020 presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg.
Meanwhile, Ciscomani's campaign has paid $101,500 in "campaign management consulting fees" to Becky Freeman, Ciscomani's current chief of staff. The payment came both directly and through her LLC, RJW Strategies.
Arizona's 6th district is a top 2026 pickup target for the national Democratic Party leadership. So far, that doesn't show in Mendoza's fundraising, which is driven by individual donors, albeit many out-of-state ones.
Meanwhile, Ciscomani's campaign has received over $630,000 from national GOP fundraising committees Emmer Majority Builders, Grow the Majority and Defend our Majority. Ciscomani won his seat by less than 11,000 votes in 2024 and less than 6,000 votes in 2022. In Congress, he often sides with the Republican Party's moderate wing.
District 6 includes much of Metro Tucson's east and north. It snakes its way up Interstate 10 to Casa Grande and stretches east to cover much of Cochise, Graham and Greenlee counties.
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