One of Joe Biden's top fundraisers has left the campaign after a dispute over fundraising strategy, but Biden insiders insist it's not a sign that the campaign is having trouble raising money.
Kory Mitchell, considered one of the party's best fundraisers and formerly the finance director of Evan Byah's All America PAC, quit the campaign this week, according to three friends of his.
According to two of those friends, Mitchell never meshed with veteran Biden aides and they, in turn, never quite took to him. According to one source, a dispute of Mitchell's salary hastened his leaving.
Larry Rasky, a senior Biden adviser, declined to say discuss Mitchell but said his departure had nothing to do with the campaign's underlying financial condition. He said the campaign expanded its payroll by 25 new hires over the past month including five new professional fundraisers in the finance department.
Mitchell joined the Biden campaign shortly after Bayh dropped out of the presidential race.
Today, Biden’s campaign chairman, David Wilhelm, sent out a fundraising plea that urges prospective donors to ignore national polls and instead focus on the 92 percent of primary voters who haven’t mad a final decision.
Writes Wilhelm: “When it comes to substance, Joe Biden is breaking through. I firmly believe that Joe Biden has a very clear pathway in this race: he is the Democratic Party's acknowledged leader on national security during a cycle when America's place in the world is the issue at the forefront of people's minds; he is the only Democrat with a clear plan for how America can withdraw from Iraq with honor at a time when Iraq dwarfs all other concerns of Democratic primary voters. “
Rasky declined to estimate how much Biden's campaign would raise, or how much it would have left in the bank when the fundraising quarter ends. "I'm feeling good," he said, "about the fundraising."
Biden raised slightly more than $2M in the first quarter of the year and transferred in nearly $2M from an old campaign account. His years on the Senate judiciary committee have helped him court the donations of the trial bar, and he's had solid fundraising efforts in Chicago and Boston.
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