Beto O'Rourke raises almost $30M in four months in race against Gov. Greg Abbott

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Democrat Beto O’Rourke’s campaign announced that they have raised almost $30 million for their campaign against Gov. Greg Abbott since Feb. 20 and are up to almost $41 million since he got into the race in November.

While that’s a massive haul for a Democrat running for governor in Texas, it still falls short of Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, who reported raising more than $24.9 million since Feb. 20 and now has raised $70 million since the start of 2021 for his re-election.

O’Rourke’s campaign emphasized that since February they have received $27.6 million from more than 511,000 contributions, averaging $54 per donation — a sign they say of how their campaign is being supported by small-dollar donors and not big money interests.

“We’re receiving support from people in every part of Texas who want to work together to ensure our state moves beyond Greg Abbott’s extremism and finally leads in great jobs, world class schools, the ability to see a doctor, keeping our kids safe and protecting a woman’s freedom to make her own decisions about her own body, health care and future,” the former El Paso congressman said.