He's obsessed with fundraising because he knows the underdog role to millionaire challengers plays well with Demonicrats that think their party is the home of the poor working slob and all the victims and the oppressed peoples of the wicked capitalistic greedy Repellican oppressors(sic)!!!
You and I may not understand this common attraction of losers, but Davi$ does. He'll vanquish that damnable multi-millionaire Simon who has never felt the pain and anguish of being a victim of having to do things the hard way all the time like Gray's doing so desperately!!! (grin)
In other words, Gray is not so gray. He is down right dirty. Soot all over him from the black-out.