Politics
Herman Cain raises $250,000 after harassment story breaks
Herman Cain (pictured), has had one of the best fundraising days of his presidential campaign on Monday, raising US$250,000 in online donations despite reports that he had been twice accused of sexual harassment.
The US$ 250,000 haul made for “one of our best fundraising days ever,” Cain’s campaign chief of staff Mark Block told a D.C election-themed conference sponsored by the National Journal. Cain himself said on Laura Ingraham’s radio show Tuesday that since the story broke Sunday night, “the fundraising has increased significantly.”
The amount raised is a healthy sum for a campaign that has been running, for the most part, on a shoestring budget. And it appears that it was all raised without a formal fundraising push. Cain spent Monday under siege from the national press corps over reports that he had, as head of the National Restaurant Association, twice been accused of sexual harassment. Cain initially called the story false and claimed he had no knowledge of any settlement being made with his accusers. Later, he backtracked on both those statements.
