Hillary Clinton raised more than $35 million in February, on the strength of 200,000 new donors, her campaign team reported today. That's more than twice the January take.
"We have the resources to play in the big states coming up," campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe said on a conference call with top fundraisers. He named Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont, "and beyond."
McAuliffe and other top campaign officials took a reassuring, if manic tone, denying news reports of defecting fundraisers. Harold Ickes, the Democratic veteran in charge of the campaign's super delegate operation, reiterated the campaign's frequent complaint that the news media has given Obama a free ride. He declared, however, that now that Obama's the front runner, the media will start looking harder. He didn't suggest what reporters would find or why it would harm him and help Clinton.
"There is not a shoe left to drop about Hillary," Ickes said. "We do not know much about Barack Obama and we do think the press has given him a pass to date. We certainly expect the press to drill down on him. We have been through a dry period in the last 11 contests but we are about to start our upswing."
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