Pete Buttigieg announces $7 million fundraising in first quarter of campaign

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South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg announced on Monday that initial reports showed his campaign raised over $7 million since launching his exploratory committee in January. Buttigieg is the first of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to reveal his fundraising total since the first quarter ended Sunday night. He promised more information to come Monday afternoon.

"We are not part of the national political machine. We started with just about 20,000 people on our email list, and not many people even knew who I was. But as more and more people around the country begin to hear our bold vision for the future, more and more people are investing in this effort," Buttigieg said in a statement on Monday. "With a first fundraising report like this, we certainly cannot be ignored," he added.

The South Bend mayor and Afghanistan veteran says that he's got "more experience in government that the president of the United States." The 37-year-old previously told "CBS This Morning" that while he might be the youngest person in the race so far, it's his unconventional background that makes him the best candidate.

"I've got more years of executive experience than the vice president and I have more military experience than anybody who's arrived behind that desk since George H.W. Bush. I get that it's not a conventional background, but I don't think that it's time for conventional backgrounds in Washington right now," the mayor said.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mayor-pete-buttigieg-hits-7-million-fundraising-milestone-in-first-quarter-of-campaign/

[donkeypoofed]

1. Mayor Pete is a frontrunner, for sure

[patricia92243]

2. I know the article says since he started in January, but about three weeks or so ago, he was

raising the $62k he needed to get into the debate.

The short period of time makes it even more impressive that he could generate that kind of revenue. I still say he will be our next president.