effectively bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. today gillibrand is trying to turn that energy and that legitimate outrage we hear from democratic voters all the time and turn that into energy for her campaign. she s going to be meeting with lawmakers, doctors and patients, talking not only her operation to georgia s law, but also highlighting her plej to only appoint justices and judges who would commit to up holding roe versus wade which goes further than a lot of the other candidates in the field so far, in terms of the expressed commitment. hallie, this is an issue that has galvanized a lot of democrats. i hear it all the time on the road. you hear it in the tweets, the statements, but also with bernie sanders, he promised to use his email list to help fundraise for abortion providers in alabama. it s a big issue on the campaign trail. candidates know voters are paying attention. shaquille brewster, thank you. betsy and aaron, you have republicans meanwhile, haven t
his massive supporter email list to fundraise for abortion support networks in the state of alabama. this is a situation where voters are paying attention and candidates know voters are paying attention. they re trying to get ahead of this issue. so interesting, shack. mimi, that brings us to the legal question because republicans have spend decades, not years, decades setting up what they thought would be the strongest challenge to roe v. wade. i want to play what pat robertson had to say. i think alabama has gone too far, pa. there s no exception for rape or incest. it s an extreme law and they want to challenge roe versus wade. but my humble view is that this is not the case we want to bring to the supreme court because i think this one will lose. i think maybe he speaks for a lot of republicans frankly.
worried? so it s really fascinating in covering this democratic primary how much fundraising has become something of a test. if you could put forward a huge multi-million dollars number at the end of a quarter it was a good sign of your viability as a candidate. now the real metrics are not that top line number but how many donors you have. how much many donations did you receiver and can you go back to keep raising more money. there s no doubt that he has deep connections with a lot of top democratic donors could raise large sums in a hurry. the real challenge is how to be creative and how to grow their small dollar fundraising pool and use their small e-mail list to grow that e-mail list and then be able to use that to raise money in the kind of eye popping numbers that we have seen already. okay. so let s talk about my favorite thing to talk about which are some of the policy pieces.
harris $1.5 million. sanders built an impressive fund-raising machine through e-mail list. much better than harris. harris hasn t necessarily run a campaign before that received national recognition. and hickenlooper and klobuchar with $1 million in their first 48. i m dying to see the official numbers when they file the fec reports. 6.1 is just above 5.9. very important for the o rourke people to get more than bernie sanders. i want to see how they did it. there s another figure you ve taught me about this cycle which is the google search results that gives you a sense of the most internet interest on each candidate? how many people are searching for these individual candidates. it s one of these things that tell us whether somebody is going to get in the polls. certainly did with kamala harris and bernie sanders. three tiers. these three people clearly got the highest. these three in the middle and these three the lowest and even people below them. what we see is beto o rourke a
decision before the ending of this month. as with biden, there s still, i suppose, a sliver of possibility he s a no, but all signs are that beto o rourke will announce a candidacy for president here in the not-too-distant future. he s taking all the necessary steps. his e-mail list has been reactivated. he s running ads on facebook getting people to sign up to be the first to hear what his announcement will be. i m told that he s reaching out to staff in a lot of the early states. beto doesn t have a day job so he can t hire people and he doesn t have a pac. there are pieces being put in place before this candidacy springs to life. so there s talk about a biden/beto joint ticket. do you know if beto has been involved in any conversations like that? no. he has been asked about the idea of running or being selected for vice president and said he s not willing to rule anything out. you know, i hear that kind of