The liberal group Progressive Change Campaign Committee has been making Elizabeth Warren’s Senate campaign in Massachusetts a top cause. And now, the group tells TPM that they raised nearly a half million dollars for the former White House financial reform adviser’s campaign against incumbent Republican Scott Brown.
The figure, $407,899, starts from the group’s draft effort for Warren, which started in late July. Previously in mid-September, the group announced that they had surpassed the $200,000 mark by the day after Warren had gotten in the race.
Thus, the group has raised about $200,000 in the two weeks since Warren officially jumped in.
Recent polls have shown Warren in a dead heat with Brown.
Brown was elected to the Senate in a special election in January 2010, following the death of long-time Sen. Ted Kennedy, in a stunning upset against Democratic state Attorney General Martha Coakley. Brown has exhibited strong skills as a campaigner, but a major challenge for him going into 2012 is that he is a Republican senator in a deep-blue state that is expected to vote Democratic by a wide margin in the presidential race.
