Washington Post political columnist Chris Cillizza calls former Gov. Linda Lingle‘s near $1.8 million fundraising quarter “truly amazing.”

As Cillizza points out, Lingle remains a Republican running in a “very Democratic state,” but Lingle has definitely put Democratic frontrunner Mazie Hirono “on notice.”

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