Joe Biden raises $6.3 million in one day, surpassing Sanders and O'Rourke - Polidicks

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/us/politics/joe-biden-fundraising.html Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s presidential campaign announced Friday that it had raised $6.3 million in its first 24 hours, the biggest first-day haul of any 2020 candidate, easing concerns among some supporters that he would be able to raise the money needed to compete financially in the Democratic primary. Mr. Biden’s campaign said 96,926 people had contributed to his campaign in the first day, with 97 percent of donations below $200. Mr. Biden and his advisers spent recent days privately urging major donors about the importance of his financial showing in the first hours and days of the contest. They pointed, in particular, to the roughly $6 million hauls from Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former Representative Beto O’Rourke of Texas as benchmarks against which the former vice president would be judged.

I wonder what his largest donation was though... It's pretty silly that anybody who supports him was really worried he'd be unable to raise sufficient funding to compete. He has no qualms about courting corporate America in the same way Hillary didn't.

The max for individuals is 2800 bucks. If 3% of that number of donors he got all donated the max, he'd have over seven million bucks.

We should just change the election system so the candidate who raises the most money wins. After all, money = free speech, therefore the more money you raise, the freer speech you have. Nothing could go wrong with this.

I highly doubt this is as they put it, I'm almost certain they're hiding something

lol bernie had over 223k individual donors, its obvious that only the rich are supporting biden

Isn't there something called bundling though, where rich people can essentially game the system? I'm not that familiar with the legal aspects of how political donations in the US work though.

Well if you're rich, there are no legal aspects to anything you do.

Yeah, I seem to remember that the 'unique donor' list is more honest because bundling I think can hide massive donations between multiple 'donations'. I'll have to read up on it more though.

"The younger generation now tells me how tough things are. Give me a break! I have no empathy for it, give me a break!" Good ol' Joe Biden there saying how he has no empathy for the suffering of the younger generation. How nice.

Well the younger generation don't have the money he wants, so why would he?

Uhm, Biden is very popular with the African-American electorate as well working class white voters. Of course he's taking in bigger donations, but it's also not like all of Bernie's donations were small fish - 80% of the money came from people giving $200 or less in his case, but $200 is not anything resembling a small donation in my book. The people really fueling these campaigns are not the poor in any case. Which is not to take anything away from Bernie, obviously. Biden is popular with the democratic electorate, and it's not just rich white people, though obviously they probably prefer his tax plan to the progressive candidates'.

Christ if we have a fucking repeat of 2016 where Bernie gets snubbed... Like I actually feel really bad for Bernie Bros in this regard. This kind of thing sucks massive amounts of balls, because nobody - aside from rich ass corporate backers of course - nobody wants this cunt. And something that should be concerning? Heard about a poll done to Bernie Bros. 20% (a small yet sizable number to be sure) said they'd vote for Trump if Bernie isn't nominated.

And what joke news site did you see that poll on?

Bernie is gonna get snubbed again in favor of establishment Democrats. The writing is seemingly already being carved into the wall. How much longer before we have another Guccifier 2.0 leak?

Man, getting real 1972 Election vibes with this. How long until the establishment democrats start wagging their tongues about how "Biden is the only candidate who can beat Trump!" Just kidding. I'm sure it's already happening.

It was an Emerson poll which had Bernie 4 points over Biden. It showed that 26% of Bernie supporters would vote for Trump over Warren, 21% would vote for Trump over Buttigieg, 17% would vote for Trump over Harris.

i hope Trump gets impeached sometime during his second term, says man who has clearly already lost every shred of hope he’s ever had

200 dollars is grassroots as hell per donor what do you mean

Is Citizens United v. FEC the most misunderstood case in Supreme Court history?

Bernie Sanders has remarkable appeal across the spectrum. He actually has a lot of fans in traditionally conservative areas. Rural, blue-collar, typically center-right voters and mild Republicans like him. But he is unique, and his appeal isn't making these people in to Democrats, they are there explicitly because of him. So they're just going to fall back to what they know without him.

Well at least that's down from what it was in 2016.

I don't think I said it wasn't "grassroots as hell".

Fewer than half the individual donors than Bernie. Kind of embarrassing.

That's ultimately his weakness. He appeals more to independents and republicans than he does to democrats. Hence why he polls relatively well but ultimately falls out, and why much of his base would rather vote for a republican than a democrat that got his endorsement.

This shit excuse for a "good man" needs to lose the primary. It's gonna be a hard general election but it'll be even harder dependent on the primary. I don't know what will happen, but I think a better way is possible. The oncoming time till the end of the 2020 elections will be a hard fight against a lot of producers of stagnation and violence. This can be either a shitty repeat, or a start to work from.

That's literally why he should be the candidate though. He appeals to more than just Democrats. That's a strength, it's why 2016 polling showed him fairing better than Clinton against Trump.

Bernie Sanders polls better with Republicans than he does Democrats. Get me off this ride.

Then maybe Democrats need to start opening their primaries for independents and republicans to vote in if they actually want to win elections?

Sources?