• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      From small donors too, the benefit of small donors is they can keep giving.

      Once someone gives the ~million to BVF, they’re tapped out. And they tend to give as much as they can to attend something like this, then they’re tapped out for the race.

      With small donors campaigns can spend as they earn, with large donors you have to try to budget. Which lets small donors campaigns get off to a fast start.

      Going after just big money isn’t a good strategy, and the DNC should have learned that lesson from the 2016 primary and then the general.

      Instead they’ve doubled down on chasing the wealthy.

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        5 months ago

        The DNC gets about half of it’s donations from small donors versus the RNC getting about 30 percent. You’re yelling at the wrong tree.

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          5 months ago

          Weird…

          So you think trump and all the rubes are lying about donating him money?

          Like. Yeah, trumo lies about most things, but you think he convinced millions of idiots to claim they donated money to him, but not actually donate?

          It’s trump…

          Why would he ever want people to not give him money?

          Like, I’ve never heard anyone call into his question that trump gets money from poor dumb people…

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            Just sayin’.

            This was not an official document. It would be much easier to get 40 rich dudes who stand to make bank off his election to write checks and just claim it was small donations.

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              5 months ago

              By all means, do t take a politicians word on anything.

              But like, a bunch of poor people definitely give money to trump, it’s his bread and butter.

              He gets plenty from large so it’s too, it’s just weird someone would act like he doesn’t get any

              And small donations still get tracked, campaigns are responsible for not accepting anything over the limit, so there are rules about tracking.

              Now, if you wanted to argue that they’re doing some kind of straw donation scheme where a wealthy person gives money to friends so they can donate…

              Yeah, that can happen, and kind of what bundling is but there’s access and Influence to the bundler at play too. Like, if a business associate you want a deal with asks you to bundle implying it helps the odds of a deal or something.

              That’s plausible.

              But there’s still a bunch of idiots that donate to trump every pay period.