According to the final campaign finance reports, Beto O'Rourke raised almost $6 million more than Gov. Greg Abbott.
According to the final campaign finance reports, Beto outraised RepublicanBut what does that mean really to this race?
Jamarr Brown, the executive director of the Texas Democratic Party, and James Dickey, president of JD Communications, joined FOX 7 Austin's Mike Warren to discuss.Jamarr, starting with you, what is the takeaway with Beto outraising Governor Abbott? Is there one?There are a few takeaways that we can assess from this. It's important to recognize that Beto O'Rourke also has over hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of grassroots donors.
So no, in big part because while donations in politics are critical and without them, you can't run a race. There's a difference between necessary and sufficient, so you have to have some level of donations. But we have all seen hundreds of races where the people with more money lost the race. I mean, just go look at Hillary Clinton for president, had more money but didn't win the election. We've got that over and over and over again.
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