GOP governors lag in race for presidential campaign money WASHINGTON (AP) — The sitting governors running for the Republican presidential nomination are finding their fundraising woefully behind the amounts pulled in by their competitors, the July-September campaign finance reports show. Documents filed Thursday with federal regulators show the trio of remaining governors — Ohio's John Kasich, New Jersey's Chris Christie and Louisiana's Bobby Jindal — have been struggling to bring in money and burning through it quickly, leaving them with little in the bank compared with their rivals.