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House Democrats Raising Money at Fast Pace

May 8, 2017 at 3:26 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee told Greg Sargent they are “on track to announce sometime this month that it raised $20 million online this year — which would already outpace the entire online haul of the last off-year of 2015.”

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