Candidate: Joe Biden and Months

candidate: Buttigieg, more than any other candidate not named Joe Biden, has spent considerable time raising money at top-dollar, in-person fundraisers over the last three months. /p p Buttigieg headlined over 70 in-person fundraisers this quarter, including over a dozen large grassroots events that blend the size of a large campaign rally with the cash generation power of a fundraiser, an aide told CNN. Chasten Buttigieg, the mayor's husband, has also become a draw on the fundraising circuit and has headlined a handful of events himself, too. /p p But the work paid off, as Buttigieg's second quarter haul dwarfs the a target blank 7 million the candidate raised in the first three months of 2019 /a . /p p This fundraising report shows that Pete's message is resonating with Americans, and it's proof that we are building an organization that can compete, his campaign manager wrote. /p p Buttigieg a a presidential exploratory committee with little fanfare /a and just a handful of staffers in January, according to MSNBC. But after a a CNN town hall in March /a Buttigieg caught considerable momentum and his campaign fought to keep up. Buttigieg's average contribution size for the cycle is 47.42, the aide added. /p p The sizable amount, more than triple his first quarter take, did not come easily. The candidate now has over 20 full-time staffers working on fundraising, including some based in deep-pocketed areas like New York, California and the Washington, DC, area. /p p Because the second quarter of 2019 was the first full quarter in which Buttigieg was considered a top-tier candidate, campaign aides and top donors expected the haul to be sizable. But the quarter has been more successful than anticipated and the campaign spent the final three weeks of the quarter trying to eclipse its goal. /p p Some of that effort was a by turmoil in South Bend /a after a white officer shot and killed a black man who was allegedly breaking into cars while wielding a knife. A host of top Buttigieg donors who have been in regular contact with the campaign told CNN in June that they expected the mayor to raise more than 15 million in the second quarter. /p p The Buttigieg campaign set a goal of 15 million -- just more than double the 7 million it raised in the first quarter -- at the start of April, according to a source familiar with the strategy. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.