Hillary's Big Fundraiser Tonight Starring Elton John Will Bring In $2.5 Million
Hillary's big and very high-profile fundraiser tonight -- which will feature a performance by Elton John at Radio City -- will bring in $2.5 million, Hillary finance chair Hassan Nemazee confirms to me.
The number vastly exceeds some expectations -- an AP story last week, for instance, predicted that the event was "expected to bring in more than $1.5 million," which is nearly a million dollars short of the actual tally.
Nemazee tells me that the event, which will draw 6,000 people, has sold out. "We are in our fifteen month of fundraising, and to do two and a half million is extraordinary," Nemazee says, not without some justification.
Now, none of this changes the fact that Obama, who continues to break records with his astonishingly successful fundraising, will badly outspend Hillary in the remaining states. He is outspending Hillary three-to-one in Pennsylvania right now, for instance.
But Hillary's fundraising numbers, though lower than Obama's, would appear to demonstrate that many of her donors haven't given up on this race yet.
Nemazee confirms, for instance, that an event in Los Angeles last week brought in a couple hundred thousand dollars, and adds that he's secured $50,000 in commitments for another fundraiser in Pittsburgh starring Chelsea Clinton, and another couple hundred thousand dollars in commitments for an event in Houston on the 24th.
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