Lagging Rivals, Elizabeth Warren Raised $21.2 Million in 4th Quarter

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Source: New York Times

Lagging Rivals, Elizabeth Warren Raised $21.2 Million in 4th Quarter

Ms. Warren’s fund-raising haul for the last three months of the year represented a slight dip, though she ended the quarter on a high note.

By Shane Goldmacher and Thomas Kaplan
Jan. 3, 2020
Updated 4:17 p.m. ET

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts raised $21.2 million for her presidential campaign in the fourth quarter of 2019, her team announced on Friday, a slight dip from the previous quarter and behind three of her top rivals for the Democratic nomination.

The total raised by Ms. Warren in the final three months of the year was lower than the $24.6 million she raised from July to September. Last week, her campaign had signaled her lagging fund-raising effort for the quarter, which echoed her slip in the polls over the same period. Days before the end the year, her campaign took the unusual step of going public with its financial performance, announcing that it had raised just over $17 million and conceding that “it will be nearly impossible to match last quarter at this point.”

That turned out to be right. But her campaign said the announcement also helped spur her best end-of-quarter run of donations in all of 2019 — more than $4 million in five days — and her best fund-raising day of the campaign, when she brought in $1.5 million on Dec. 31.

Over all, Ms. Warren’s money came from nearly 900,000 contributions in the quarter, with an average donation of about $23, demonstrating her potent grass-roots support.

Still, her $21.2 million haul was significantly behind the $34.5 million that Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, her leading rival on the left, has reported raising. She also trails the $24.7 million collected by Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., and the $22.7 million raised by former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Those three opponents all reported raising more money in the fourth quarter than they had in the third.

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-fundraising.html

[Peacetrain]

1. Hey 21.2 million is nothing to sneeze at. She is doing fine..

She let her people know she was losing ground and they turned out for her.

[BlueMTexpat]

2. Exactly!

$4 million in five days, of which $1.5 million came on the last day.

We EW supporters are with our candidate!

[bluewater]

3. Warren was honest with her supporters and it paid off big time!

And why aren't ALL the candidates described as "trailing" behind Bernie Sanders' $34 MILLION in fund raising?

You can throw a blanket over Biden's, Warren's and Buttigieg's numbers compared to Sanders' eye-popping haul.

[BlueMTexpat]

4. It's just that again, it's only the women

who are "lagging."