that he s had, both coming out of the debate and in fundraising. and the first quarter fundraising numbers which we are still getting from some major candidates, his haul was remarkable. $24.8 million competing with 21.5 over the same period for joe biden. 19.1 from elizabeth warren, although no big dollars going to elizabeth warren, so that s a feat of low dollars. and 12 million from harris. is there a sense with buttigieg that if he can overcome this deficit that he s got with support from african-americans that that puts him into sort of a position to be competing with the frontrunners in this race? yeah. i think that s the question. why is it that there is this gap between the fact that buttigieg is by far at the moment the highest-raising candidate for the last quarter and the fact that his poll numbers are not reflecting that increase in support, particularly among the minority community but also overall. and i think that what the
senator elizabeth warren taking a chance on her 2020 presidential campaign shunning conventional wisdom when it comes to add tidesing, fundraising and polling. that s according to new politi if her town hall in new hampshire yesterday was any indication, it s working. the crowd overflowed outside the venue, our next guest who was at the event said her performance with the crowds keeps getting better, too. garrett haake. you were there yesterday, tweeting about it. we were talk being biden so we didn t get to it, but talk about what you saw. talk about the money first because i think it is really important. warren basically set aside the traditional fundraising platform, she is not doing the who a circuit behind closed doors. a lot of people were holding their breath waiting for the number yesterday. the $19.1 would have been
sanders, whose campaign said he raised around $18 million in the last quarter, and kamala harris, as well, whose campaign said she raised some $12 million last quarter. now, brooke, the word that we are going to continue to hear from the warren campaign is grass roots. from the beginning, the warren campaign and the candidate herself has really emphasized the fact she is not going into closed-door fund raisers. she is not soliciting high-dollar donors. in the primaries, this is a theme she has continued to highlight out on the campaign trail. and to that point, her campaign manager just put out an email to supporters, and as part of that announcement, he wrote that they are building a presidential campaign without catering to wealthy donors. so no doubt, $19.1 million. this is a big haul for the warren campaign, especially compared to what she raised in the first quarter. so they have to be pretty happy about this news today. brooke. $19.1, as said, average donation, $28. david chali
refused to accept any cash from big-money corporate donors or political action committees. with me now, national reporter for the washington post and cnn contributor and, you know, this is a wow for the massachusetts senator, right? i mean, $19.1. how do you interpret this? certainly. this is a huge haul of money and i think you have to take these numbers and you have to partner them with pete buttigieg s numbers. he is kind of a leading democratic candidate up over $24 million in that quarter. and it speaks to how, especially small money donors but all democratic donors are looking for new and fresh candidates and ideas. look, there was a world in which we would have come into this primary and bernie sanders and joe biden could have eaten up all the money. and instead what we have seen is a bunch of other candidates who have had relatively successful fund-raising hauls. with warren, it s fascinating, because, again, she is a skewed the big-money donors, a small-donor-only route,
november 1st-december 24th up 5.1% from 2017. $850 billion. strongest growth in the last six years. online sales up 19.1%. from the previous year. but there is this volatility. we are living in volatile political times so it s not surprising that there is volatility in the market to match it. it looked like the traders were getting a good after christmas sale today buying a lot of the stocks that were at bargain prices after christmas and after the sell-off on christmas eve. but kevin is right, the fundamentals of the economy are strong and i think that s why president trump feels that he can do things like take on china on trade because a lot of people may disagree about the wisdom of starting a trade war with your allies like canada and the european union that i don t think there s a serious person out there who doesn t believe that china is a trade creditor, that they are stealing our intellectual property, but they are forcing american companies operating in china to hand over