Schiff's Senate campaign reports fundraising windfall after GOP censure vote – Axios

Rep. Adam Schiff. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images.Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) 0n Wednesday announced a massive fundraising haul for his U.S. Senate campaign between April and June.Why it matters: The already prolific fundraiser used the highly publicized, successful Republican effort to censure him last month as fundraising fodder.Schiff’s campaign said it raised $8.1 million in the second quarter of 2023, bringing its total cash-on-hand to $29.5 million.It’s the most raised by a Democratic Senate candidate in the second quarter of an off-year, a campaign spokesperson said, outpacing Sen. Raphael Warnock’s (D-Ga.) $7.2 million haul in the second quarter of 2021.It’s also more than some incumbent, swing-state senators reported raising this quarter: Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) raised $3.2 million, and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) brought in $4 million.The backdrop: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) last month forced votes on a resolution censuring Schiff, the former House Intelligence Committee chair, over his allegations about ties between former President Trump and Russia.The first vote, which would have included a $16 million fine, failed after 20 House Republicans voted against it, but the resolution passed a week later without the fine.Schiff received considerable solidarity from his Democratic colleagues, who heckled House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as
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