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Title: New Fundraising Numbers Hint That the Biden Campaign Is In A Death Spiral
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RedState
URL Source: https://www.redstate.com/streiff/20 ... t-biden-campaign-death-spiral/
Published: Oct 4, 2019
Author: streiff
Post Date: 2019-10-05 10:05:03 by Tooconservative
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Views: 740
Comments: 3
New fundraising numbers have been posted by the Democrat primary candidates and they show some interesting shifts in the field. Decrepit and bedridden Bernie Sanders led the pack with $25.3 million. Enough to buy a nice mausoleum. Yahoo Finance has the cute graphic: If you ignore the silliness of Yang and Williamson, the real story is that Joe Biden is in a death spiral. His fundraising is down by 30%. He’s slipping in the polls, especially Iowa and New Hampshire. His South Carolina “firewall” looks very flimsy. The news swirling around about Hunter Biden’s financial shenanigans is not going to get better and you can bet President Trump is not going to let up so long as the Ukraine phone call bullsh** is being propped up as grounds for impeachment. Beyond that, Biden’s campaign staff is as sclerotic as Biden so by the time it responds to Charge A we’ve already moved on to Charge F (see my post Donald Trump, Impeachment, And John Boyd’s OODA Loop). Beyond the slowness of his campaign’s reaction time, Biden is not a fighter. He’s simply not temperamentally suited to engaging in the bare-knuckle brawl that Trump seems to relish as is shown by his response to the corruption allegations against his son. You’ll also notice that Biden has been abandoned by his fellow Democrats and is left to fight this out with just the help of his media friends and fluffers. As a footnote, Harris is also toast…I find this sort of shocking as I would have bet good money that she’d be one of the top three candidates going into Iowa. Everything is going Warren’s way. Biden is fading. Harris and Buttigieg have been revealed to be insubstantial lightweights. Bernie Sanders is unlikely to go back on the trail. Right now, if you were forced to make a prediction you’d say that she is the nominee. We’ll see how she does when President Trump and his team drop the twitching, tattered corpse of Joe Biden’s campaign and turn their gimlet eyes of Pocahontas.
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Elizabeth Warren was second with $24.6 million.
Pete Buttigieg raised $19.1 million.
Joe Biden pulled in $15.2 million.
Kamala Harris finished the Third Quarter with $11.6 million.
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His latest fundraising round was more than $9 million behind his closest rival in the polls — Elizabeth Warren. His total also ran well behind Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders. That’s a problem for a candidate who is seeking to compete in all four early states and also build out his campaign infrastructure in the 14 states that will vote on Super Tuesday. Making matters worse, Donald Trump and Republicans have announced they’ll launch $10 million in negative TV ads — with $1 million targeted at the early nominating states alone — pushing the president’s claim that Biden and his son Hunter engaged in corruption in Ukraine… ... “The former vice president, with all the high-dollar contacts around the country — you do all the big fundraisers in the big cities. Once you do that, that’s it. If you don’t have that perpetual, low-dollar fundraising machine, you can’t compete,” Kochel said, noting the massive figures reported by Biden’s top rivals. “Biden looks like he can’t compete with Warren, Bernie and Buttigieg. How’s he going to compete with Trump?” ... Politico: Biden’s looming cash crunch ...
#2. To: Tooconservative (#0)
Someone contributed $1 to Williamson, and now she's up 100%?
Fear that kind of momentum.
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#3. To: Hondo68 (#2) (Edited)
I think Sanders, after his heart surgery in the last few days, loses his support and small donors to Warren. I think that once Biden's big donors have maxed out that his small donors won't match those in the orbit of Sanders/Warren/Buttigieg.
At some point, Sanders will recognize he's lost again and drop out.
Buttigieg, mostly a gay publicity stunt, might stay in the race past South Carolina.
I think Biden might fold up early, perhaps even before any caucus/primary. That is what Trump is trying to do, knock Biden out or wound him mortally in key states. When Biden's balloon deflates, it will go out with a bang, not just a slow leak. The first big frontrunners usually blow up spectacularly, like Howard Dean screaming his way to a NH/SC defeat with his scream of victory in Iowa. Hyaaaaah!!!
I see this is your first post since 9/11. Hopefully you've been busy (or suspended by Stone) and not ill.
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