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brooklynite

(94,713 posts)
Mon Sep 21, 2020, 02:40 PM Sep 2020

Biden takes huge cash lead over Trump while outspending him 2 to 1

Politico

For the first time this election, Joe Biden is sitting on the biggest pile of cash — and he’s vastly outspending President Donald Trump, too.

Biden is entering the final stretch of the general election with $141 million more in the bank than Trump, a stunning reversal of fortunes from last spring, when Trump held a hefty financial edge as the nearly broke Biden emerged from the Democratic nominating contest.

Biden and the Democratic National Committee, along with their affiliated joint-fundraising groups, have $466 million in the bank, according to a Biden campaign official, after raising a record-shattering $365 million last month. Trump and the Republican National Committee, meanwhile, are sitting on $325 million in the bank, Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said.

Just looking at the presidential campaign committees themselves, Biden ended August with nearly $181 million on hand to Trump’s $121 million.

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Biden takes huge cash lead over Trump while outspending him 2 to 1 (Original Post) brooklynite Sep 2020 OP
So the conservative money machine is snubbing Trump, or is he looting the campaign coffers... Thomas Hurt Sep 2020 #1
Biden rso Sep 2020 #2
but.....Biden does not have Russia and voter suppression Skittles Sep 2020 #3
there is still plenty of Republican soft money out there TheRealNorth Sep 2020 #4
Keep donating, volunteering and vote early (in person if possible) jorgevlorgan Sep 2020 #5
we were ahead in 2016 too qazplm135 Sep 2020 #6
Yep! jorgevlorgan Sep 2020 #7
lots of GOP aligned SuperPacs out there with $$$$, need to look at beachbumbob Sep 2020 #8

qazplm135

(7,447 posts)
6. we were ahead in 2016 too
Mon Sep 21, 2020, 03:16 PM
Sep 2020

although Trump wasn't broke like he appears to be right now.

That money needs to be spent on GOTV efforts and helping Senate races.

But the reality is, it's up to us. To get out and vote, to convince other people to vote.

I've already turned one Trump voter from Texas to at least not voting for Trump, still working on a switch to Biden.

We should all be working to move people from Trump and/or to Biden whether friends and acquaintances or phone banking or whatever.

We win if we are working together to win, it's not on Team Biden alone.

 

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)
8. lots of GOP aligned SuperPacs out there with $$$$, need to look at
Mon Sep 21, 2020, 03:24 PM
Sep 2020

ad availability time slots in key states and key districts that been reserved as soon the only time slots available will be 1am. Why all the add time needs to reserve now going into final 6 weeks in all these key areas so the opposition can't drop a ton to buy it

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