Hagan touts fundraising figures

Kay Hagan says she raised more than $1.6 million in the second quarter.

Though detailed campaign finance reports are not yet available, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate announced at noon today that she had $1.2 million in cash on hand.

"This extremely strong fundraising total will enable us to aggressively compete with Elizabeth Dole and spread Kay’s message to as many North Carolinians as possible," said spokeswoman Colleen Flanagan in a statement.

Hagan's previous report from mid-April showed she had raised $1.5 million since her campaign began in October of last year, however she spent much of that money in a primary race against Chapel Hill investment banker Jim Neal.

The Hagan campaign also boasted that she "more than doubled" her number of individual contributors from North Carolina in the second quarter.

Update: Flanagan said the $1.6 million figure includes all money raised from April 1 to June 30. 

She said that more than $1.5 million of that money is from after April 17, when candidates had to file their final pre-primary report.