Beto O'Rourke Fundraising Triples Ted Cruz's In Texas Senate Race

The Democratic challenger's campaign says the $38.1 million haul was a fundraising record for a Senate race.

Cruz’s campaign said it raised a total of more than $12 million in the quarter. O’Rourke raised about half that amount online alone during the last several days of September.

O’Rourke’s fundraising in the second quarter also dwarfed Cruz’s effort, $10.4 million to $4.6 million, according to the Texas Tribune.

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O’Rourke’s campaign has a two-day goal of “knocking 102,733 doors and making 102,733 phone calls” this weekend, according to the Daily Beast.

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this piece said that Sen. Krueger was elected to office and that he left the Senate in 1994. In fact, he was appointed by Gov. Ann Richards as an interim senator after the resignation of Lloyd Bentsen in 1993 and lost a special election later that same year.

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