Poilievre, Charest neck-and-neck in early fundraising numbers

Conservative leadership candidates Pierre Poilievre, Jean Charest, and Leslyn Lewis are top of the first-quarter fundraising pack, grabbing totals of $545,298, $490,088, and $225,751, respectively.

First-quarter fundraising results show Pierre Poilievre, left, and Jean Charest have secured the most donations early in the Conservative leadership race. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

May 4, 2022

Early fundraising numbers show Conservative leadership front-runners Pierre Poilievre and Jean Charest are pulling ahead in the six-member field, but drawing from different audiences that strategists say feed into emerging themes that one has populist pull, and the ot...

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