One of the early criticisms of Joe Biden during the primaries was that he was a bad fundraiser and if he won the Democratic nomination, he wouldn’t be able to raise enough money to go head-to-head with Donald Trump in ad buys and campaign cash. I don’t know why we fall for that line of thinking during every election cycle, but here we are. As soon as Biden became the presumptive nominee, he began raking in money. All of the old Obama/Clinton fundraising organizers came to his side. All of the Democratic donors put their money behind him. And so here we are, with Biden out-raising Trump:
For the second consecutive month, Joe Biden raised more money than Donald Trump. The Biden campaign and the Democratic National Committee late Wednesday reported that they together raised $141 million in June, for a total cash haul of $282.1 million for the quarter. Both figures bested Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee, which reported $131 million in June and $266 million during the second fundraising quarter of the year.
The Trump campaign, however, reports it still has plenty sitting in the bank, with $295 million cash on hand. Democrats did not disclose that figure on Wednesday.
“It’s clear that voters are looking for steady leadership, experience, empathy, compassion, and character — and they’ll find all of these qualities in Vice President Joe Biden. This has been our argument since day one of this campaign, and it will be our winning argument in November,” Biden campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon wrote in an email to supporters.
O’Malley Dillon wrote that 68 percent of last month’s donors were new to the campaign, that the overall average online donation was $34 and that more than 2.6 million also signed up to join the campaign.
This makes me feel okay. I don’t personally believe that this election will be decided by ad buys, but it’s always nice when there’s an even playing field when it comes to ad buys and campaign cash. Plus, we’ve got superpacs spending crazy money too and even THAT is working in Biden’s favor now. A group of former George W. Bush campaign/administration people are organizing a superpac to target disaffected Republicans who could vote for Biden. Speaking of, I tweeted out this NYT story yesterday:
This article is full of hope and yet it also makes me want to scream into a pillow for an hour, how about youhttps://t.co/WDW6xXK1eA
— Kaiser@Celebitchy (@KaiseratCB) July 1, 2020
And I’ve been thinking about it a lot, this idea that after three years of treason, racism, white supremacy, misogyny, baby cages and more treason, it’s the pandemic which has actually made some Republican voters second-guess their Trump votes. I mean… I want to see Trump defeated and if these people aren’t going to vote for him, God bless and thank you. But also: were they not paying attention to any of that other sh-t??
Photos courtesy of Getty.
Good! Lets make trump the mistake that we quickly learned from.
Why does The Times continue with these stories. Pumpkin cannot read. That has been established.
Also, the same Bush SuperPac that loudly quietly helped but Doughboy Rapist on the Supreme Court. Keep it.
And I have no time to give a damn about empathy for racist ass voters who has no problem with putting that Nazi in the WH until it became a inconvenience for them to be inconvenienced. They can enjoy paper cuts with splashed of lemon juice for eternity.
They were paying attention, they just didn’t care. The pandemic was the first thing that personally affected them and their quality of life.
Exactly. If it didn’t affect them, they didn’t care or if they were slightly better people and it was something they might care about or thought they *should* care about, they attributed whatever was said to ‘fake news’ from the ‘liberal media’.
The ability of human beings to avoid facing up to major mistakes (like voting for Trump) should not be underestimated.
This is (sadly) what it comes down to, isn’t it. I accept that not everyone is going to consider the people around them as well as their own interests (never mind people far away or not like them), particularly when those interests don’t fully align but this still makes me weep. Maybe it’s nice to live without a conscience.
This is why Trump screams about ‘fake news’ so much (even when there is rock solid proof a news story is true). It lets people who voted for him shrug off whatever is being said and still think of themselves as good people.
I think this is a good point. So many (white, cis-gendered) people think it doesn’t matter, all politicians are the same, government doesn’t do anything, and either don’t vote at all, or vote foolishly. The pandemic has probably opened some eyes.
When Trump was elected i had a conversation with my friend about people who voted for trump, in regards to racism. That – at the VERY LEAST- plainly stated, racism is not a deal breaker for them.
They don’t care, they pretend it doesn’t exist, it does not effect them, they agree with it.
Whichever that is- at the very least- they didn’t see a racist and go- well i would NEVER vote for him.
They went, well he has other “good” qualities. Or, they went YAY finally someone who sees the world as i do (they would never say “yay racism” because even racists know that racism is evil, so they can’t ever be called that.
It makes me feel sick.
Glad that the deaths of 125,000, many of which could have been prevented, has shocked these people’s consciences.
Assuming they have consciences.
Classic case of expecting the violence and misery to only be inflicted outward instead of back at you. Just look at Brexiters upset about losing their UN rights, as though they only expected immigrants into the UK to be affected. Emotional toddlers who can’t stand the idea that living in a society means having to compromise or accept things they don’t like.
Joe Biden NEEDS to start spending that money on ads. Trump is shelling out big bucks in Minnesota – Biden hasn’t at all. He has to start stepping up!!!! Act like you want to win this Biden!!!