{"id":584950,"date":"2021-07-07T10:50:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T14:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=584950"},"modified":"2021-07-07T10:50:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T14:50:26","slug":"alabama-senate-candidate-shatters-fundraising-records-and-its-not-who-trump-endorsed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alabama-senate-candidate-shatters-fundraising-records-and-its-not-who-trump-endorsed\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Senate Candidate Shatters Fundraising Records \u2013 And It\u2019s Not Who Trump Endorsed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falabama-senate-candidate-shatters-fundraising-records-and-its-not-who-trump-endorsed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=584950&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-07-at-10.16.50-AM-copy-e1625667504787.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Alabama Republican Senate candidate Katie Britt announced that she raised $2.24 million since launching her campaign, shattering the state\u2019s quarterly fundraising records.<\/p>\n<p>Britt, the former chief of staff to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/08\/richard-shelby-not-running-reelection-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">retiring<\/a> Republican Sen. Richard Shelby, announced her campaign on June 8, reaching her record-breaking milestone in just 23 days, according to local outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/yellowhammernews.com\/beeker-seeks-reelection-its-crucial-to-me-to-fight-on-behalf-of-hard-working-alabamians\/\">Yellowhammer News<\/a>. She resigned from leading the Business Council of Alabama to run for Shelby\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"12.076294277929\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It\u2019s official: I\u2019m running, and I\u2019m all-in!<\/p>\n<p>I will put Alabama First, deliver results for our state and never apologize for it. Because we don\u2019t just need a senator from Alabama, we need a Senator for Alabama. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BrittForAlabama?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BrittForAlabama<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AlabamaFirst?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AlabamaFirst<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WATCH: \u2b07\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ni9Sc57Z9D\">https:\/\/t.co\/ni9Sc57Z9D<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aGGzGYBWDl\">pic.twitter.com\/aGGzGYBWDl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Katie Britt for AL (@KatieBrittforAL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KatieBrittforAL\/status\/1402222623950528512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Britt added that over 90% of donations came from within Alabama.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/08\/john-merrill-alabama-senate-bid-affair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Alabama Senate Candidate Drops Out After Being Confronted About Affair)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clear that the people of our state know that we don\u2019t just need a senator from Alabama, we need a Senator FOR Alabama,\u201d she said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Alabama First message is resonating strongly with hardworking families who want to protect our Christian conservative values and see real results \u2013 not the same old tired, empty rhetoric that politicians have been selling them for decades,\u201d she said in a press release, reported Yellowhammer. \u201cWe\u2019re seeing and hearing this on the campaign trail every day, and these numbers certainly reinforce the incredible reception and momentum we\u2019re experiencing on the ground. I cannot thank our supporters enough for their enthusiasm and generosity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though Britt has posted record fundraising totals, she faces a crowded Republican primary to the race to succeed Shelby, who has held his seat since 1987. Other candidates include <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/07\/donald-trump-endorses-mo-brooks-alabama-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump-endorsed Rep. Mo Brooks<\/a> and businesswoman Lydia Blanchard, who has largely self-funded her campaign, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/2021\/07\/katie-britt-touts-historic-fundraising-in-senate-campaign.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to AL.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama Republican Senate candidate Katie Britt announced that she raised $2.24 million since launching her campaign, shattering the state\u2019s quarterly fundraising records.Britt, the former chief of staff to retiring Republican &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314147,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-07-at-10.16.50-AM-copy-e1625667504787.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Alabama Senate Candidate Shatters Fundraising Records \u2013 And It\u2019s Not Who Trump Endorsed","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-07-at-10.16.50-AM-copy-e1625667504787.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Alabama Senate Candidate Shatters Fundraising Records \u2013 And It\u2019s Not Who Trump Endorsed","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}