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Sanders Leads Trump & All 2020 Candidates in Donations from Active Duty Troops
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/bernie-sanders-leads-trump-all-2020-candidates-in-donations-from-active-duty-troops-946188/ - Bernie Sanders Leads Trump, All 2020 Candidates in Donations From Active-Duty TroopsNo other 2020 candidate for president, including Donald Trump, can come close to matching Bernie Sanders level of support among members of the U.S. military, to go by the most recent campaign finance data from the Federal Election Commission.
Soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines have donated a total of $185,625 to Sen. Sanders 2020 campaign. By comparison, they have given $113,012 to Trump, $80,250 to Pete Buttigieg, $64,604 to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and a relatively paltry $33,045 to former Vice President Joe Biden, according to Doug Weber, a senior researcher at the Center for Responsive Politics.
Soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines have donated a total of $185,625 to Sen. Sanders 2020 campaign. By comparison, they have given $113,012 to Trump, $80,250 to Pete Buttigieg, $64,604 to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and a relatively paltry $33,045 to former Vice President Joe Biden, according to Doug Weber, a senior researcher at the Center for Responsive Politics.
ETÀ The Data does not come from an opinion piece. The Data comes from The Center for Responsive Politics is OpenSectrets which collects Data on campaign contributions.
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Sanders Leads Trump & All 2020 Candidates in Donations from Active Duty Troops (Original Post)
Nanjeanne
Jan 2020
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David__77
(23,418 posts)1. Makes sense to me.
A lot of sense.
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lapucelle
(18,265 posts)2. There is no data about "active-duty troops" in the opinion piece.
The data is for "people employed by the military".
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Uncle Joe
(58,364 posts)3. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread Nanjeanne.
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George II
(67,782 posts)4. Show us the numbers, don't just talk about it.
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Nanjeanne
(4,960 posts)5. Data can be found at OpenSecrets.org for all armed forces and all candidates.
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Joinfortmill
(14,427 posts)6. First Trump now Bernie
Jeez, WTF?
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Nanjeanne
(4,960 posts)7. WTF? Now we aren't supposed to be happy when people in Army or Navy
Support a candidate?
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