President Biden’s reelection campaign raised more than $1 million through online fundraising alone in the 24 hours after the president’s Jan. 6 anniversary speech, according to numbers exclusively provided to The Hill.
Biden on Friday gave a full throated attack against former President Trump, his likely GOP opponent, and warned Americans that Trump’s reelection would pose a threat to American democracy. The president zeroed in on Jan. 6 to mark the third anniversary of the U.S. Capitol riots and argued in his remarks that democracy is on the ballot in 2024.
In response to the 24-hour fundraising haul, the Biden campaign noted that they see preserving democracy as a political winner for the president in 2024.
Honestly only a million is a weak number. Three or four would have been good, six would make me think democracy might survive. The 2020 election was over $14 billion, and we’ve had strong inflation since then.
Getting people pumped to support Biden is like getting excited about plain toast. We best start acting like it’s our first food in a month.
Democrats 101. Let perfection stand in the way of pragmatic voting.
Never underestimate the DNC’s ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
DNC 101: let 1992 thinking stand in the way of 2024 solutions to 2024 problems.
Is everyone losing their fucking minds? I’ll shove that plain toast up my fucking ass if it means my kids can keep waking up, going to school, and altogether living normal lives. Comfort apparently does breed contempt because nobody is really fighting for this shit. None of us were there before plumbing, before democracy, lets not fucking find out.
Yeah. One party wants minorities crushed, women dead in childbirth, and Christianity to be law. The other kinda sucks. None of the above isn’t happening. The Dems won’t learn a lesson from losing but the gop sure will learn from winning
>One party wants minorities crushed, women dead in childbirth, and Christianity to be law. The other
wants to maintain the threat of the other party getting power in order to solidify their own power. actually doing something about it would weaken their case for election so they never will.
At this rate we might as well vote for Vermin Supreme. Fuck it. Because they’re all batshit crazy not listening to anyone but themselves.
I quite like cornel west
I like Cornel West, too. Unfortunately, I don’t know if the left being fractured as it usually is will be as little of an issue as it sometimes is. At the very least, Biden has a chance and he and his party (shitty as they are) are not actual fascists.
>he and his party (shitty as they are) are not actual fascists.
I disagree
Yeah fuck it. Its our swamp. But dont really do either of those things lol
I miss when #BernItAllDown was a naive possibility for me.
I dunno, America seems to be in a real fuck around kinda mood this year.
I gave Bernie a ton of money because I knew he was getting mostly grassroots donations.
Biden has a bunch of millionaires to ask for money who have a lot more disposable income than I do. He can go ask them.
Meanwhile my $27 a month is going to bail funds.
Bernie outspent Biden in many states during the primary and still lost badly.
The reality is that the broader electorate isn’t as left-wing as Bernie.
I think you missed the point he was trying to make. It wasn’t about the merits of a candidate, it was about the type of person they use as funding sources.
I donated a bunch last cycle, but the DNC spent a fair portion on promoting ‘spoiler’ candidates in Republican primaries. I don’t want my money spent on further radicalizing the GOP. If Dems are worried about money I have a great suggestion of a line item to cut that will cover far more than any contribution I could make…
I can’t blame anyone for not being pumped about Biden. At this point he’s making Reagan look spry and lively.
That’s a big part of the problem though. The left needs a populist like Bernie or Obama in order to draw in the money and support. An institutional centrist like Biden just has nil for enthusiasm. Which has nothing to do with being able to be president, but at the end of the day, elections are popularity contests. And at this point, Bidens biggest personality draw, is that he’s not Trump. Which is probably almost enough to win the next election by itself. If only by the barest of margins. Not really the kind of margin you want to risk the future of the free world on.
Greatest Democracy in the World™
It’s pretty telling that a dollar amount is an indicator of chances to win an election. The fact that you’re talking about this like it’s normal says so much about how fucked our political system is.
(Not at all saying that what you’re saying is wrong at all. Just commenting on how accustomed we’ve become to it that it’s normalized)
Oh it’s completely fucked up, and I fully realize that. Worse yet, the million dollars that were reported is merely a polling sample of the actual cash flows to superPACs and other organizations both domestic and foreign.
I’ll support Biden. Not super excited, but I’ll still support him given the alternative.
After '16-'20, plain toast would seem like a welcome blessing amongst the shit the country had become.
What the fuck is going on in these comments?
Tankies and hardcore leftists despising liberals, then throw in information wars of Israel/Palestine, and then add a dash election astroturfing.
The tankies really do threaten the fediverse. They are a small group, but they poison comment sections with their moronic, asinine ideas. They also tend to be very heavy commenters (I can guess why) which sucks because it drowns out the majorty
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Trump raised $4 million the day after his indictment.
I really hope the election doesn’t come down to who outspends who, or the grifter with NFT trading cards may end American democracy after all.
The grifter with the NFT cards is using the money he raises, plus all his party’s money, on legal fees. Michigan and New Mexico GOP are both broke because they can’t get any national funding because it’s all going to Trump’s legal fees.
No Presidential election since 2012 has been decided by who pays more, so there’s some good news.
Tight.
Yes and no. Biden should win, but you can’t champion democracy while keeping money in politics.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
President Biden’s reelection campaign raised more than $1 million through online fundraising alone in the 24 hours after the president’s Jan. 6 anniversary speech, according to numbers exclusively provided to The Hill.
Biden on Friday gave a full throated attack against former President Trump, his likely GOP opponent, and warned Americans that Trump’s reelection would pose a threat to American democracy.
The president zeroed in on Jan. 6 to mark the third anniversary of the U.S. Capitol riots and argued in his remarks that democracy is on the ballot in 2024.
In response to the 24-hour fundraising haul, the Biden campaign noted that they see preserving democracy as a political winner for the president in 2024.
In 2024, that will be no different, and we are encouraged by the strong grassroots enthusiasm we are seeing around the President’s core campaign message,” Rob Flaherty, Biden’s deputy campaign manager, told The Hill.
Trump, in response to the speech, accused Biden of “fearmongering” and suggested the president was only attacking him on the issue of democracy because he could not run on other issues.
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Biden and Obama chain a presidential candidate to a chair for eight hours to prevent her from debating with them and the republicans but he is preserving democracy
https://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/17/green_partys_jill_stein_cheri_honkala
jill stein during the 2016 election summed it up better
During the campaign, Stein repeatedly said that there were no significant differences between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. She said, “Romney is a wolf in a wolf’s clothing, Obama is a wolf in a sheep’s clothing, but they both essentially have the same agenda.” She called both of them “Wall Street candidates” asking for “a mandate for four more years of corporate rule”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Stein
how is Biden not the same?
How many times do I have to see this fuckin “chained to a chair” bullshit copy pasted around here 😂
Genocide Joe is the biggest threat to Democracy. Replace him with another candidate that people with morals can vote for.
So basically do the thing most likely to give trump a shot? Nah I’m good.
Since when has voting been about morals?
What’s it about then trying to kill as many brown infants as possible? Cause both the popular candidates seem to like doing that a lot.
No, that’s gonna happen in America no matter what. Voting is about whether the government acts sad about it.
But he’ll commit genocide less than Trump will. That’s pretty much what it boils down to
Except not really. Biden is israel’s favorite candidate. They spent more money backing him than Trump.
Trump is the Russia guy.
Biden is the israel guy.
