Marco Rubio Brings in $5 Million in Third Quarter

Former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the Republican candidate and the front-runner in the U.S. Senate race, announced on Wednesday that his campaign had raised more than $5 million in the third quarter of 2010 -- with more than $5.5 million on hand for the last weeks of the election.

In making this announcement, Rubio's senior strategist Todd Harris issued the following statement:

This campaign started at the grass-roots, was fueled by the grass-roots, and when we win on Election Day its going to be because of the grass-roots, the best candidate and the best message.

"While we still fully expect this final report to show us trailing Crist in cash on hand, we are confident we will have the resources to meet or exceed whatever our opponents are spending on television during October. With close to 100,000 donors, the size and enthusiasm of our donor base gives us a virtually unlimited pool of support we can return to again and again over the final stretch of this campaign.

We will need our grass-roots support over the next four weeks more than ever before, continued Harris. As we have already seen, Charlie Crist is desperate. He will say and do anything to win this election. He will run millions in false attack ads to smear Marco. And he is sitting on more than $6 million, which will allow him to keep up his shameless attacks.