Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) raised $9.6 million within the first three months of the 12 months — greater than double her second-highest quarter — a large haul that comes amid rising calls by progressives for her to mount a 2028 main problem towards Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer.
Ocasio-Cortez, who now has greater than $8 million in cash-on-hand, has spent current weeks barnstorming the nation with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on his “Combating Oligarchy” tour, drawing 1000’s of supporters. Her fundraising was included in a Federal Elections Commission report filed Tuesday.
A pacesetter of the progressive motion, Ocasio-Cortez has lengthy been a fundraising powerhouse who attracts upon an unlimited community of small-dollar donors.
She mentioned in a submit on X that the typical marketing campaign donation was $21, and marketing campaign supervisor Oliver Hidalgo-Wohlleben said in a statement that 64 p.c of contributions got here from first-time donors, including that “AOC doesn’t take a greenback from lobbyists or company PACS. Our high donor professions are lecturers and nurses.”
“I can’t convey sufficient how grateful I’m to the thousands and thousands of individuals supporting us along with your time, assets, & power,” Ocasio-Cortez said of her fundraising. “Your assist has allowed us to rally folks collectively at document scale to arrange their communities.”
Fellow progressives shortly touted her haul, which greater than doubled her second finest quarter, when she raised $4.4 million in the summertime of 2020.
“The individuals are sending Democrats a message concerning the course they wish to see,” Sanders adviser Faiz Shakir mentioned in a post on X.
