• Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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    5 days ago

    Progressive Dem campaigns are essentially free because the voters themselves are donating the bulk of the money.

    Ya, people forget that Bernie was always the top money raiser during the primary and Warren was usually #2, both on small donations. And that was during the primary when individual donations from Democrats were spread across many options.

    In February 2020, Bernie + Warren raised $67M in individual donations. The entire rest of the crowd totaled $56M. Democrat individual donations can put out $123M in single month. For a primary, in a single month.

    When it was Biden alone going into the 2020 general, he was pulling in $160M in small donations. That’s more than Trump raised during most of his 2016 campaign. We don’t need to be beholden to these large donors.