Elizabeth Warren reveals unintimidating $6 million Q1 fundraising haul

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published 10 April 2019

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is turning out to be a big spender on the campaign trail — but it's unclear if that's paying off.

The 2020 candidate revealed her first-quarter fundraising haul on Wednesday, sharing in an email to supporters that she'd pulled in $6 million from 135,000 donors. That total isn't too hefty when compared with more mainstream and even underdog rivals — and Warren isn't exactly stashing it all for a rainy day, either.

Warren's Q1 total comes in at about a third of funds raised by frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who reported last week that he'd raked in $18 million from 525,000 individual donors over the same time period. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who's slightly ahead of Warren in most polls, said she got $12 million from 218,000 people. Warren's total doesn't even look great in comparison to once-longshot candidate Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who said he's gotten $7 million from an undisclosed number of donors.

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Warren has already spent $4.6 million, or 85 percent, of her Q1 earnings, which Politico notes means she's "spending like a front-runner but isn't yet raising money like one." Still, she has an additional $10.4 million in the bank after transferring unused Senate election funds to her presidential election stash. That's a sizable war chest for a candidate who reportedly lost her finance director because he didn't like her small-money donation commitment.

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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.

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