Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren shaking hands outside frigid Fenway Park on Saturday. @ElizabethforMA
Any doubts that Warren will be over-matched by Wall Street's Favorite Senator have now been put to rest.
Via the Boston Globe:
Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law professor and consumer advocate whose US Senate candidacy has fired up Democrats across the nation, raised $5.7 million in the last three months of 2011, an extraordinary amount for a first time candidate and an unmistakable reflection of what many observers say is her potent appeal to party leaders and activists eager to recapture Edward M. Kennedy’s seat.
That figure was confirmed by people with knowledge of the fundraising effort.
The same people reported that Warren has just over $6 million on hand in her campaign account.
Her overall fund-raising for those few final months of 2011 have outpaced Republican Senator Scott Brown’s total for that time period. Brown’s campaign released fund-raising figures this week showing he raised $3.2 million in the final quarter of 2011, and that he raised a total of $8.5 million last year.