Elizabeth Warren's campaign says its fundraising dropped 30 percent from last quarter

Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-Mass.) presidential campaign is looking for a little holiday miracle.

On Friday, Warren's campaign sent an email to supporters saying her fundraising was "a good chunk behind where we were at this time last quarter." Her campaign had so far raised $17 million ahead of next week's fourth-quarter fundraising deadline, the email said — at least a 30 percent drop from the $24.6 million it had ended up with last time.

While acknowledging campaigns usually wait until FEC reporting deadlines to reveal how much they've raised, "we're a grassroots team, and you should know exactly where things stand right now," the Warren email said. The campaign is telling supporters where things stand as of Thursday, and asking for help hit the goal of $20 million, which it said it needs "to keep our plans on track."

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Warren nearly topped the 2020 Democratic pool in fundraising last quarter, even beating out former Vice President Joe Biden's $15.2 million. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) came out first with $25.3 million, marking the highest quarterly fundraising total of any 2020 candidate so far.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

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.