Elizabeth Warren raises $6.9M, doubling Scott Brown [View all]

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/220537-warren-raises-69-million-doubling-brown

Democrat Elizabeth Warren raised $6.9 million in the first three months of 2012, doubling Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) and cementing her status as the top Senate fundraiser of the cycle.

Warren's astonishing first-quarter haul put her in line with what many presidential candidates raised, and exceeded what she had raised in any previous quarter — including the last three months of 2011, when she raked in $5.7 million. The campaign said more than 30,000 people from 350 Massachusetts towns had contributed since the start of the campaign.

Brown announced last week he had raised $3.4 million between January and March and had stockpiled $15 million for his general-election campaign against Warren.

"Scott Brown still has $4 million more in the bank than we do, and there's a lot of work ahead to do to close the gap. But this proves we're building something special," Warren's campaign manager, Mindy Myers, wrote Monday in an email to supporters.

Elizabeth Warren Raises $6.9 Million In 1st Quarter 2012
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Myers said that more than 30,000 people from 350 Massachusetts cities and towns contributed and that 83 percent of the donations since January have been for $50 or less. Those points were aimed at countering GOP charges that Warren, a former Harvard professor, is primarily an outsider backed by Washington forces.

In fact, moments after the Warren campaign announced its impressive haul, Brian Walsh, communications director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, tweeted, "Now if only the vast majority of donors to Professor Warren actually lived in MA and could vote in November. Perspective matters...."

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