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Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) reported fundraising numbers of $12.5 million for the first quarter, behind the figures produced by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. (Read more figures here.)

Republican Q1 Fundraising Figures
Romney: $23 million (including over $2 million transferred)
Giuliani: $15 million
McCain: $12.5 million

With McCain’s front-runner status wrested away by Giuliani and lagging in the race for money, McCain did have a bright spot: he has nearly twice as many contributors than Romney — 60,000 to 33,000.

There are grumblings as to what McCain’s cash on hand is, given his all-start cast of GOP attack dogs.

[Updated by MBH @ 10:42, 4/3/07]:

The AP is reporting that Brownback and Huckabee have released there numbers:

Brownback: $1.9 million (includes $575,000 transferred from Senate account)
Huckabee: $500,000

Both Brownback and Huckabee were beat by Democratic Senator Joe Biden, a man who has zero chance to win his party’s nomination. I think Brownback and Huckabee are in danger of running campaigns that are a little too grass roots.

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Not much to add to this statement by Chuck Hagel on Bush’s proposed escalation of the Iraq war, other than that I agree with him whole-heartedly.

“I have to say, Madam Secretary, that I think this speech given last night by this president represents the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam,” Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., said of Bush’s plan to add 21,500 troops to secure Baghdad in concert with Iraqi forces. “If it’s carried out, I will resist it.”
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“It’s, first of all, in my opinion, morally wrong. It’s tactically, strategically, militarily wrong. We will not win a war of attrition in the Middle East… Madam Secretary, we’ve been there almost four years, and there’s a reason for that skepticism and pessimism, and that is based on the facts on the ground, the reality of the dynamics.

Other Republicans harshly criticized Rice and the Bush plan, including Lisa Murkowski, John Sununu, Norm Coleman, George Voinovich, and Richard Lugar.

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