MIAMI — Alexander Vindman, the former National Security Council aide who helped trigger President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, has raised $1.7 million in the first day of his Democratic bid for Senate in Florida, according to his campaign.
The figure, shared first with POLITICO, is the highest amount reported in a day raised by any other Senate candidate in Florida history, the campaign said, adding that it received more than 36,000 contributions total — with 99 percent of online donations totaling $100 or less.
Vindman is vying to replace GOP Sen. Ashley Moody, a former state attorney general who Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed to the Senate when Marco Rubio became Trump’s secretary of State. While several other Democrats are in the race, his name is prominent nationally because he was a NSC aide during Trump’s first term and testified before Congress about Trump’s 2019 call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Vindman, an Army combat veteran and lieutenant colonel, said of the fundraising total that he was “grateful” for the support and declared the “historic first-day showing makes clear that Floridians are ready to end the chaos and corruption and fire elite politicians like Ashley Moody who have rigged the system for themselves.”
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