If there’s ever any doubt about the momentum former White House financial reform adviser Elizabeth Warren brings to the Massachusetts Senate race, just check in with the national fundraising effort led by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.
The fundraising drive began a couple months before Warren got in the race, and on the first day of her official candidacy, the PCCC surpassed $200,000 raised. That’s around $105,000 for the Draft Warren effort and around $99,000 for Warren’s actual campaign.
PCCC co-founder Adam Green tells TPM the group raised $75,000 in the day since Warren announced she’d jump into the Democratic primary to face Sen. Scott Brown (R) next fall.
More from Green on the group’s efforts:
Our goal was to ensure that on Day One of her candidacy, Elizabeth Warren had the financial resources and Massachusetts ground troops she’d need to launch a strong people-powered campaign. Today is Day One — and with local organizing councils set up across Massachusetts and over $200,000 from folks giving an average $17, we’ve met that goal. Now, we’ll mobilize our 27,000 Massachusetts members into the campaign’s grassroots activities and keep our national membership informed of Elizabeth Warren’s huge momentum in Massachusetts.
Warren faces six opponents in the Democratic primary race. If she makes it through that, she’ll face Brown, who has put together a mighty war chest to defend the seat he won after Sen. Ted Kennedy (D) died in 2009.
