Gov. Charlie Crist announced he raised another $2.4 million for his U.S. Senate campaign, a third-quarter collection that is roughly the same amount fellow Republicans Jeff Atwater, Bill McCollum and Marco Rubio combined to collect for their respective statewide campaigns in the same time.

Crist said he has $6.2 million on hand after about five months of fundraising.

Crist said the money will help “ensure that our campaign has the financial means necessary to take the fight for the people of Florida to our nation’s capital.”

But the campaign for Rubio, Crist’s Republican primary opponent, said Crist will need “every last cent.”

“Money can’t wipe away Charlie Crist’s record of support for wasteful stimulus spending, historic tax increases and cap-and-trade,” Rubio campaign spokesman Alex Burgos said.

Tags: Charlie Crist, fund-raising

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