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State Rep. James Talarico raised $6.2 million in the first three weeks of his bid for Senate, his campaign announced Wednesday, a massive haul that far outpaces the earliest fundraising numbers tallied by recent Democratic statewide hopefuls.

The staggering total, easily more than Talarico has brought in across his seven years in the Legislature, establishes him as an immediate fundraising juggernaut. Talarico’s foe in the Democratic primary, former U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, took two months to raise the same amount last cycle when he kicked off his challenge to U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz . Beto O’Rourke, who set a new standard for Democratic fundraising in his 2018 r

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