Kirsten Gillibrand’s Failure to Launch POLITICO
HAMPTON, New Hampshire—Kirsten Gillibrand is only asking for a dollar. It’s not that she couldn’t use more money. In the first quarter of 2019, the junior senator from New York raised just $3 million for her presidential campaign, the weakest haul of the six senators running at that time and arguably one of the most disappointing totals of anyone in the sprawling Democratic field. Given her anemic polling since entering the race, Gillibrand’s feeble fundraising performance fanned skepticism about her viability to earn a nomination that Democrats believewill require close to $100 million in …