Hillary Campaign: Yes, We Did Raise $10 Million In One Day
A bunch of you have written in to express skepticism about the Hillary campaign's claim that they raised $10 million in the 24 hours following her Pennsylvania victory.
But the Hillary camp is now saying that, yes, in fact they did raise that sum.
Here's what happened. Yesterday afternoon top Hillary adviser Terry McAuliffe said on MSNBC that the campaign was on track to raise that amount by the end of the day. He also said that there were 50,000 new donors.
A lot of people understandably questioned those numbers, because they would mean that the average donation yesterday was $200 -- an unusually high sum.
But here's the deal. Hillary's top internet adviser, Peter Daou, tells me that McAuliffe was talking about the number of donors they had counted by that moment, not the projected total number of donors. Meanwhile, other Hillary advisers gave other reporters different donor numbers at different times, adding to the confusion.
But Daou clarifies that by 11 P.M. yesterday, the campaign had in fact taken in the $10 million, from a total of 100,000 donors -- 80,000 of them new.
That would mean an average contribution of roughly $100 -- which makes much more sense.
Separately, it looks as if Tech President's Micah Sifrey -- who first sounded the alarm about this -- has now updated with the same new info.
So that's where we are on this now. More if we get it.
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