Ken Martin

I mean, we can trade in all of this, but let's actually trade in facts.

$105 million was raised.

$85 million of it came from grassroots donors, which is a record amount of grassroots donations raised in the history of the Democratic Party.

That shows the energy that's out there.

The average contribution is $51, by the way, John.

And we raised more than any of the other committees last year, the DS, the DCCC.

And I will just tell you this, all of the Republican committees raised more than the DNC.

And so that's just a reality of coming out of a year when you lose the presidential election.

When you're the party that's out of power, of course you're going to not raise as much money as the Republicans.

But to suggest that we're not raising money is inaccurate.

We raised $32 million in the first quarter.

But what we're doing that's a little different, John, is we're spending it.

We're raising it and we're spending it.

What part is not accurate?

The reality is we're spending money.

as we raise it, to win elections and to build infrastructure.

We have invested significant amounts of money, record investments in Virginia and New Jersey, investments in Mississippi in their state legislative races to help them flip the Republican supermajority in their state legislature, investments in the Miami mayoral race to help us win a Democratic elected mayor in the first time in 30 years.

Investments in the PSC races in Georgia to help us win the first two non-federal elected races, statewide races, in 20 years in their history.

Investments throughout the country, up and down the ballot.

And investments in infrastructure, including the largest investments ever in a 50-state party strategy where we're making the biggest investments in building out the infrastructure of our state and local party committees.