Democratic candidates fundraise off 'send her back' chant at Trump rally
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"To my surprise, Ilhan was pretty unfazed," Sanders wrote in an email to supporters."Sadly, as she told me, she has been dealing with this kind of hatred and racism for a long time. And she knows, as we do, that Trump is a demagogue doing what he does best: dividing and conquering through hate. "Can you chip in $3 today to show Ilhan Omar that we stand with her? Every contribution sends a powerful message to Donald Trump that we will not allow him to divide us up.""As a Veteran, it sends chills down my spine to watch a stadium of Americans shouting ‘send her back’ about anyone — but especially a duly-elected Member of Congress," Jerry Green, coordinator for the VoteVets PAC, wrote in a fundraising email.
"CNN’s hourlong debate-lineup revelation had the appearance of a Powerball drawing and just as much depth," he wrote in his review. Go figureThe deadline for presidential campaigns to report their quarterly fundraising data was this week, and Yahoo News' Brittany Shepherd breaks down the barrage of FEC reports:
One of the more impressive fundraising hauls came from South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who raked in an eye-popping $24.9 million in the second quarter — a $17.5 million increase from the first. And Buttigieg did so despite being embroiled in criticism for the murder of a black citizen by a white police officer back home in South Bend.
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