on your own schedule. you get fast and free shipping on the things that make your home feel like you. that s what you get when you ve got wayfair. so shop now! welcome back to velshi & ruhle. at the end of every month we check to see how the democratic contenders are fair ing in the poll. this week is especially important. the next debate is just four days away. here to help us with that, our steve cornacki. so it has been interesting since the last debate. where do things stand right now? take a look. the average, real clear politics of average of all the different
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$24.8 million in the second quarter with help from 294,000 donors. the $7 million pete buttigieg raised in the first democratic debate is providing a funds raising surge for some of the other candidates. senator kamala harris campaign raised $2 million in the 24 hours following her thursday s performance. that s the most of any day in her campaign. on wednesday, julian castro, raised three times over his best fund raising day. steve cornacki who has been crunching these numbers is joining me now. the fund raising, we ll get that picture the next couple of days or weeks. pete buttigieg, hope that it means for him a polling booth. the first poll, this is the morning consult. this was conducted in the first
only 8 or 9 candidates would have been on the stage. there could be a big crunch coming by the end of summer. good to see you as always. steve cornacki. the 2020 candidate are rallying around kamala harris after donald trump jr. restarted the birther conversation. he retweeted a post that questioned harris ancestry. her fellow candidates came to her defense. joe biden tweeted the same forces of hatred rooted in birtheri birtherism. racism has no place in america. ali vitali who has been on the road covering the candidates. this hgoes back to donald trump
for that option? i heard yes. i am a proponent for medicare for all. our correspondent, steve cornacki, is joining me now. is that perfectly clear, steve? it makes me more confusing is this has been an ongoing question i think for harris, there was a town hall a couple of months ago on cnn where it seems like in that town hall. she endorsed the idea of ending private health insurance then her campaign says no, no, that s not what she was saying. she supports supplemental. that was the context. when i saw her raise her hands last night. my immediate reaction is wait a minute, are we back to where she was in that cnn town hall a couple of months ago. she is saying she heard yours and you play the clip there. it was there. it looks like when she had time to think about this and she s not answering on the fly or the stage, the direction of her campaign wants to go and the