Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke raised $6.1 million dollars in the first 24 hours after launching his presidential campaign, crushing the first day hauls of many of his Democratic competitors
Before last week, it was Sanders who had set the bar for first-day 2020 fundraising, pulling in $6 million in 24 hours after announcing his run for the presidency. California Sen. Kamala Harris’ launch had been the second-most lucrative so far, raising over $1.5 million in her first day in the race.
Several of O’Rourke’s fellow Democrats, like Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, broke the $1 million threshold after about 48 hours, their campaigns said. The former congressman tapped into his fundraising prowess during his failed Senate run when he raised a record-breaking sum of more than $80 million in his close loss to Sen. Ted Cruz . Of that amount, more than three-quarters of that money came from online donors, according to a POLITICO analysis of Federal Election Commission filings from ActBlue, the online fundraising platform used by O’Rourke and other Democrats.
Although his campaign against Cruz built O’Rourke a nationwide small-donor base, the former El Paso congressman's support was concentrated in Texas, which has not traditionally been a major source of Democratic fundraising. The state has been largely untapped by O’Rourke’s 2020 rivals — a potential boon for his presidential campaign, if those home-state supporters stick with him.
O’Rourke took in over $30 million in online contributions just from Texas in 2017 and 2018, with an average donation of $41. His next-best states were Democratic online donor bastions: California, New York, Massachusetts, Washington and Illinois.
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