be, and could they make or break some campaigns? let s ask gop fundraiser noel thanks for being here, appreciate it. you know, some people are paying their own bills, or at least a lot of them, like vivek ramaswamy. of course, he s got a couple hundred million of his own spend to on that, not everybody has that personal cash, but with could we see the race diminishing as a result of these figures? absolutely, david. hanks for having me on. thanks for having me on. you cannot get your message out if you don t have money. so it s very is, very important to the watch these fund raising polls. and the other thing i will tell you is i am more interested in how much these candidates are raising, even more so than the general polls on how they re doing because if you raise more money than min, you have power to advertise, get messages out and saturate with your message so that you can attract new voters and new people that want to join your campaign. so i really, really pay at
voters and new people that want to join your campaign. so i really, really pay attention to how much they re raising. and it s important also to know, dave, who the money comes from. because if you want to the look at fund raising totals and you break em down and you notice someone like donald trump has raised $10 million but he s done so by small donations of maybe $10, $20 the, $100, that speaks volumes compared to let s just say desantis when he made his announcement raising $8 million, 5 of it coming from big billionaire donor ken griffith. david: noelle, i m happy to say we re joined by mr. doug schoen who we were having technical difficulties. our a charlie gasparino is hearing from some democratic fundraisers saying for an