Carson raises $20M for ’16 bid in past 3 months

“Now, that was back in the days before they would shoot you”, he said, laughing.

“Everybody did it because it was so much fun”. “The people have gotten involved, and that’s something I think they probably never anticipated”.

Asked whether the Carson campaign had calculated its burn rate, Watts replied via email: “We don’t look at it as burn rate, we look at it as an investment in creating a donor list, which then costs very little to reconnect with in the future”.

Carson said he would hop over 10-feet tall fences, to run away from the police.

“I’m just kidding!” he said.

Political newcomer Ben Carson raised greater than $20 million up to now three many months to fuel his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, his marketing crusade stated Wednesday., a haul of marketing crusade cash in that shatters records & sets a brand new bar for his GOP rivals. Campaign manager Barry Bennett told the Associated Press the Carson camp has started to reserve television advertising time for a wave of Southern primary contests in early March.

Carson’s fortunes surged even as he faced tough questions in recent weeks for saying he would not support a Muslim president. Watts added that the campaign raised more than $1 million in a 24-hour period surrounding the last debate. Bernie Sanders’ team said it had pulled in roughly $26 million.