if we think as democrats that spending $10 million to get 130,000 donors is grass roots support, we re missing something. we re not going to win this election based on facebook ads. does he have a point or is that a guy having trouble moving up in the polls whining? all of the above, john. this plays nicely into bullock s wheelhouse. he has tried to make campaign finance reform one of his go-tos and this gets at what some democrats would see as the absurdity of this process in which you have someone who hops in the race fairly late in the process and then drops millions of his own personal wealth to get attention on facebook to, therefore, get grassroots donors. it s hard to wrap your head around that. i get why he s frustrated. that said, governor bullock has a larger challenge, the fact that times have changed in twooev2019 a red state governor does not have the same cache among folks
so she has done a step away from medicare for all. it s not at all, medicare for all. and she has kept a role for private insurance, extended the time for transition to such a system. how she defends that is going to be a critical moment for her, it s been one of the question marks around her candidacy. while we listen to all the folks, you listened to her standing center stage. we had a 1% crowd yesterday. same thing here, there are five candidates. kirsten gillibrand who you saw do her walk-through. jay inslee, this is a do or die moment in many ways for them. the rules to get to the next debate stage. you need to be higher in the polls, more grassroots donors, and if you don t have a moment to elevate yourself that way, you are going to be left out of
castro. they ended up to get all of the attention. they got the majority of the media coverage from the second night of the debate. you know, castro proceeded to the background. he has to make the next one. you know, a lot of the candidates are frankly sending out red alerts to all of their supporters because they know in the next debates in september and on they need to make 2%. they have to double the number of grassroots donors. there is still time, right. in detroit i believe the standing is still the same. castro will be on the debate stage. there is time for him to have another breakout moment. i want to go back to castro for a second. do you think we are looking at
efforts to take it away. if that s how voters see this lawsuit here, it could be big trouble for republicans on ballots anywhere next year. let s talk 2020 democrats. elizabeth warren announced her fund raising number, over $19 million in the second quarter. that sounds like a very big number, especially given her strategy, no big corporate donors. not just no big corporate donors but no fund raising events of any kind. the traditional finance circuit warren said early on she want going to participate in it. $19 million was good enough for third place among the candidates who have given us their numbers so far. it will remain good enough for third place. it s an impressive number in and of itself, right behind joe biden. the fact warren has been able to do this entirely with grassroots donors, average donation of $28, is proof of concept. she has an expansive operation. something like 300 paid
last night that his campaign has already raised nearly $20 million since he got into this race. the former vice president told donors last night in new york that his campaign had 360,000 individual contributors who had given an average of $55. well, guess what that adds up to, if you do the math, $19.8 million, more than the $18 million bernie sanders raised in the first quarter. and there are still two weeks left in this quarter. elizabeth warren, who has pledged to avoid all high-dollar fund-raiser tweeted minutes after the biden fund-raising news first broke, quote, i don t spend time at fancy fund-raisers. instead, i spend my time meeting voters and thanking grassroots donors who chip in what they can. and biden is not the only one hauling in reportedly record amounts of cash. according to politico, buttigieg raised $7 million in april alone. that would match his entire total for the entire first quarter of 2019. we also understand that they re also about to hit their $50 million m