“I’m staying in this race. And I’m in it to win it.”
So said Democratic Presidential candidate Corey Booker in a statement on Monday, after a 10-day-long fundraising push that ended this past Sunday in the Palmetto State.
Booker’s rush for more donations came as his campaign said it needed to raise $1.7 million before the end of the fundraising quarter on Monday, or else he would drop out of the race. Booker managed to bring in more than $2 million by that deadline.
On Sunday during a visit to a block party in Columbia, South Carolina, Booker celebrated the cash haul by calling for the president to be removed from office before the election can even take place.
“We need to focus on the challenge we have right now,” Booker said, “which is the president’s potential violation of his oath of office. And that’s the investigation that we should see the State Department doing because there’s been State Department implications in this story.”
Booker still has many hurdles to face, however, both financially and in the polls.