After a relatively sluggish first-quarter fundraising start to 2019, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren reported a $19.1 million second-quarter haul Monday, edging past her small-dollar rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, and giving her the third best numbers on the quarter. Here's the way the final Q2 numbers shake out for the Democrats' top tier candidates:
1. Buttigieg: $24.8M
2. Biden: $21.5M
3. Warren: $19.1M
4. Sanders: $18M
5. Harris: $12M
Warren's campaign sent out an email saying that the her fundraising was the result of some 384,000 donors giving average donations of $28. The numbers represented growing grassroots support for her candidacy, with more than 80% of Warren's donors contributing to her campaign for the first time.
Warren is foregoing high-dollar fundraisers in favor of fueling her campaign through small-dollar donations, and both her and Sanders have taken a pass on PAC money. But the fundraising for Sanders, who logged the best numbers of any candidate in the first quarter at $18.2 million, was virtually stagnant. Warren more than tripled her first-quarter numbers which came in at about $6 million.