After Withholding First-Day Fundraising Numbers, Beto Finally Releases Them — And They’re Quite Good

After choosing to withhold his first day fundraising numbers long enough to prompt speculation that they were disappointing, Beto O’Rourke’s campaign has finally released how much he raised in his first 24 hours — and it’s better than all of the other 2020 Democratic candidates, including Bernie Sanders.

As The Daily Wire’s Emily Zanotti reported Sunday, after O’Rourke’s campaign refused to release his fundraising numbers for a couple of days, speculation mounted over the weekend that his first-day performance was “underwhelming.”