Joe Biden’s presidential campaign has raised more than $30 million since the beginning of last month, the former vice president said on Monday.
The announcement of Biden’s haul comes as Democratic leaders across the country have begun to coalesce around his candidacy following his dominant performance in South Carolina’s primary on Saturday.
Two of his moderate competitors, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar, have since suspended their campaigns and backed Biden. Another former rival, Beto O’Rourke, also endorsed Biden late Monday.
Still, even Biden’s new supporters have criticized his organization, with House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) recently suggesting that his campaign needs retooling and former Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia remarking on an election-night television panel that Biden had “virtually no field operation” in Iowa.
In an interview on Monday night on CNN, Biden said his campaign had already begun retooling, bringing in people from other campaigns and “building up the structure to be able to run a national campaign.”
“Part of the problem was we got started very late. We did not have the resources other campaigns had,” Biden told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “But, for example, just since the First of February to date, we’ve raised, I think, $33 million in the last 30 days, 31 days.”
The former vice president said he would continue adding people to his team and said that “there’s some really fine people out there that are now coalescing, and I think we’re in good shape.”
Though Biden may experience a boost in Super Tuesday states with the withdrawal of Buttigieg and Klobuchar, he will also face former Mayor Mike Bloomberg of New York on ballots for the first time. The billionaire has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in ads across Super Tuesday states.
Biden, for his part, argued that Bloomberg isn’t a Democrat and “knows zero about foreign policy.”
“I don’t want to get into criticizing Mike,” Biden said. “I think he’s a decent guy, but I don’t think he is a Democrat with a capital D. It’s not where he’s been.”
Of Bernie Sanders, the frontrunner, Biden reiterated that voters were looking for results, not a revolution. Sanders, who on Sunday announced raising $46 million in February, has spent more than $16 million in the 14 states that will vote on Tuesday. Biden has spent only about $1.5 million, spread across California and Southern states.
Biden acknowledged that “we have a better chance in some [Super Tuesday] states than others,” but predicted he would “do very well” in Virginia and North Carolina. He expressed confidence in performing well in Texas but conceded that it’s a much larger state and he hasn’t had millions of dollars to pour into advertising in the state.
The new cash infusion, however, will help Biden go on the air in later-voting March states, such as Florida and Georgia.
“I think we’ll do very well in both those places, and I think we’ll do very well in Michigan and Pennsylvania,” Biden said. “So I think, look, as I said from the beginning — and I know people are tired of me saying it for the last six months — this is a marathon, and I think we have some genuine momentum, and I think the American people know me and know me pretty well, and so I think the combination of the two is gonna put me in good stead.”
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