{"id":8265,"date":"2025-04-15T19:47:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ocasio-cortez-raised-9-6-million-in-three-months-smashing-her-own-record\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T19:47:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:47:53","slug":"ocasio-cortez-raised-9-6-million-in-three-months-smashing-her-own-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ocasio-cortez-raised-9-6-million-in-three-months-smashing-her-own-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocasio-Cortez raised $9.6 million in three months, smashing her own record"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) raised $9.6 million in the first three months of the year \u2014 more than double her second-highest quarter \u2014 a massive haul that comes amid increasing calls by progressives for her to mount a 2028 primary challenge against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez, who now has more than $8 million in cash-on-hand, has spent recent weeks barnstorming the country<\/a> with Sen. Bernie Sanders<\/a> (I-Vt.) on his \u201cFighting Oligarchy\u201d tour, drawing thousands of supporters. Her fundraising was included in a Federal Elections Commission report<\/a> filed Tuesday.<\/p>\n

A leader of the progressive movement, Ocasio-Cortez has long been a fundraising powerhouse who draws upon a vast network of small-dollar donors.<\/p>\n

She said in a post on X that the average campaign donation was $21, and campaign manager Oliver Hidalgo-Wohlleben said in a statement<\/a> that 64 percent of contributions came from first-time donors, adding that \u201cAOC doesn\u2019t take a dollar from lobbyists or corporate PACS. Our top donor professions are teachers and nurses.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot convey enough how grateful I am to the millions of people supporting us with your time, resources, & energy,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said of her fundraising<\/a>. \u201cYour support has allowed us to rally people together at record scale to organize their communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fellow progressives quickly touted her haul, which more than doubled her second best quarter, when she raised $4.4 million<\/a> in the summer of 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people are sending Democrats a message about the direction they would like to see,\u201d Sanders adviser Faiz Shakir said in a post on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) raised $9.6 million in the first three months of the year \u2014 more than double her second-highest quarter \u2014 a massive haul that comes amid increasing calls by progressives for her to mount a 2028 primary challenge against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Ocasio-Cortez, who now has more than $8 million […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}