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Finances, we are also learning this came from 128,000 individual donors. a lot of this, the way that it worked, and now his presidential campaign was modelled on what bernie anders did and turn everyone into a doe nor. he is trying to make it as open as possible for who could be part of whatever he is building, here is what he described for how he keeps it going. >> i want to make sure that everyone understands that we're going to campaign for everyone. you can't be too progressive or too moderate, if we want to meet the challenges of an economy

In order to try to match the initial hauls of beto and bernie. he is in his 3wid to visit all ten of the state's counties. this morning he finally revealed the details of his astounding $6.1 million haul in the first 24 hours. >> more than 128,000 unique contributions made in the first 24 hours from every state in the country. $47 was the average contribution. all of it came from people. not a dime from lobbyists. >> wow. >> let's bring my panel in. >> we have to start with beto. what do you make of initial fundraising? >> i was initially skeptical if he was going make that figure. i thought i...

Told you and a little analysis, if you will, about where we are in the money race. >> reporter: sure, chris. here's the context particularly as the o'rourke campaign views this. they're aware they're coming into this race thinner on policy and accomplishment than some of the other people. part of what o'rourke brings is this excitement factor that he can bring now people into the party and raise money. they know they had to prove that on a national stage when he's not just running against ted cruz, someone who all democrats were willing to get behind him and support him. they need to prove tha...

Help in the first 24 hours of this campaign. more than 128,000 unique contributions made in the first 24 hours from every state in the country. $47 was the average contribution. all of it came from people. not a dime from pacs or lobbyists. we've had more donations since then, and i do not know what that total is. we'll obviously be filing by the filing deadline and at that point we'll make that information public. >> just a little bit of comparison here because he's proving he has a grassroots fund-raising base. he raised 6.1 million in the first 24 hours from 128,000 individuals and 47. you ...

President wants to run for the white house. his people have spent the last few months kind of drip, drip, dripping those intentions to news outlets across america. now "the wall street journal" reports two big nuggets that make a run seem inevitable. one, they report biden has told half a dozen supporters that he does indeed intend to run. and two, he's got an early focus on making a big splash when he's officially getting in. how do you do that? well, you can show all the support that you have with an early haul of money. that's one of the things that got beto o'rourke a lot of attention and ...