Surprisingly, the big fundraising winner is Mayor Pete:
Buttigieg raised $24.9 million. He also revised his first-quarter haul upward, from $7 million to $7.4 million.
Roughly half his second-quarter cash came from donors giving less than $200, according to USA TODAY.
Former Vice President Joe Biden raised a little more than $22 million. U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts raised $19.1 million and Sen. Kamala Harris of California raised $11.8 million. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont raised $18 million and transferred another $7.6 million from committees he had formed for previous races.
Who would have predicted that?
He even raised more than Kamala in California and the SF Bay Area!
Vox has this analysis of the broader impact:
The top tier of candidates in polls — former Vice President Joe Biden; Sens. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Kamala Harris; and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg — is clearly the top tier in fundraising.
These five were the only five candidates to raise more than $11 million in the second quarter of 2019 (between April 1 and June 30). And there is significant distance between them and the rest of the candidates — everyone else raised $4.5 million or below in contributions.
Then, within that top tier, Biden isn’t looking like a particularly dominant frontrunner, Sanders has some good news and some bad news, Buttigieg is punching way above his weight. Meanwhile, Warren has pulled off a remarkable turnaround, while Harris still has some work to do.
Worth discussing.