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TexasTowelie

(112,204 posts)
Tue Jul 16, 2019, 06:51 AM Jul 2019

Beto O'Rourke still top Texan in donations despite Q2 skid, but Julian Castro shows momentum

WASHINGTON — Julián Castro's fundraising accelerated in the last three months, and the $2.8 million haul he touted on Monday more than doubled the donations he took in during the early months of his bid for president.

A remarkable 40% of that came in the four days after the first Democratic primary debate, in which Castro attacked fellow Texan Beto O'Rourke for failing to do his homework on border policy.

O'Rourke's fundraising pace, meanwhile, plummeted.

He raised $3.8 million from April to the end of June, but that was not even as much as he raised in the first 24 hours of his campaign. And it amounted to about a third of what he'd raised in his first month.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/07/15/julian-castros-28m-haul-shows-progress-still-lags-top-tier-democrats-wide-margin

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from what i hear from people in Texas Beto is more popular than Castro JI7 Jul 2019 #1
 

JI7

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1. from what i hear from people in Texas Beto is more popular than Castro
Tue Jul 16, 2019, 06:52 AM
Jul 2019
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