week: Buttigieg raised nearly 25 million during the second quarter, outpacing Biden and all his other competitors for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to CNN. In interviews this week, several Obama bundlers said the 37-year-old Buttigieg has energized a wide range of political donors. At least 40 top fundraisers to Obama's 2012 reelection effort donated to Buttigieg's campaign during the three-month period, helping to catapult the once little-known mayor to the top financial tier. Bryan Rafanelli, a Boston-based event planner who raised money for both Obama and Hillary Clinton, said he decided to speed date a few candidates before quickly settling on Buttigieg. There is no question that people in the Clinton and Obama worlds started to connect and say, 'Who is this guy ' And ask, 'Why is he so special ' Rafanelli said about the early buzz around Buttigieg. He's already hosted four events for the mayor, and the first sold out so quickly that organizers had to add a 55-person lunch with only donors who gave the 2,800 maximum contribution for the primary, he said.
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