JEFFERSON CITY • Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway raised roughly 37 times more campaign cash than her Republican opponent last month, according to filings made by both candidates.

Galloway, who is running for a four-year term this November after being appointed to the post in 2015, raised $180,746 from the tail end of July through August. Her opponent, Saundra McDowell, raised $4,820 during that same period.

While Galloway reported $1.2 million on hand, McDowell reported just over $5,000 in her campaign coffers as of Sept. 1. The Galloway campaign said in a news release that the fundraising disparity in the auditor’s race was unprecedented in Missouri.

Still, the Galloway campaign said it expected a rush of independent expenditures to aid McDowell during the last two months of the campaign. The campaign did not elaborate as to which groups may be cutting checks.

“Because of the rise of dark money groups, even this incredibly flawed and otherwise totally unelectable candidate has hope,” Eric Slusher, Galloway’s spokesman, said in a statement.

Galloway is the only Democrat holding statewide office in Jefferson City.