Pete Buttigieg makes fundraising inroads in Connecticut for his presidential campaign

Don’t look now, but Pete Buttigieg has more contributors in Connecticut than Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren or Kirsten Gillibrand.

Surging in the Democratic presidential polls for 2020, the South Bend, Ind., mayor and Afghanistan war veteran also out-raised a number of more established Democrats from Jan. 1 to March 31 in Connecticut, which is often referred to as the ATM of politics.

Buttigieg, a Harvard-educated Rhodes scholar who is openly gay, is now second in a Granite State Poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire of primary voters there.

He raised $28,016 from 76 contributors in Connecticut, according to the Federal Election Commission. Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York raised $81,553 from 74 donors and $55,596 from 68 donors, respectively, during the first quarter.

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