Biden’s $30m weekend fundraising blitz breaks Democratic Party records.

It's incredibly messed up that the thing that ensures we get a good candidate in US politics is bags of money. It's almost like the system might have some glaring problems.

I mean, we all knew what this campaign was gonna look like.

He appointed Jamie Harrison as the DNC chair, someone that appeared out of nowhere to checks notes lose to Lindsey Graham despite getting record breaking donations...

I mean seriously, dude raised $57,000,000 dollars but couldn't beat Lindsey Graham so Biden put him in charge of the DNC.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/11/us/politics/jaime-harrison-lindsey-graham-south-carolina.html

And he's got a "media mogul" named Jeffrey Kazenberg as a campaign co-chair. His bonafides involve access to celebrities and bundling donations from millionaires.

https://www.latimes.com/la-influential/story/2024-06-16/jeffrey-katzenberg-hollywood-fundraiser-democrats

It's not like the actual campaign manager knows better, this is the first time she's been a campaign manager, so it's good she used such a low stakes campaign as her springboard.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/25/bidens-campaign-team-00093671

And that last link covers the rest of the team as well.

But when people keep wondering "who the fuck is making these calls?"

It's those people handpicked by Biden, and they're fucking up a very important campaign and refusing to listen to any feedback that doesn't come from the incredibly wealthy.
- Some valid criticism here, but in fairness to the campaign manager, you make it sound like she was pulled off the street when:
  
  but she served as the deputy campaign manager on Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ last campaign and is close with the president.
- Devastating facts, I actually wasn’t aware of Kazenberg. Damn. Most important election of our lives though folks. Promises to keep, to the donor class.
Money endures quality candidates like it endures quantity products, eg not at all.
It's unsustainable long term, eventually either someone with enough money comes along and ends the game and establishes some kind of an autocracy, Or enough people will get pissed off about it that they can't ignore making reform's on it.
I feel like we're much closer to one of those eventualities than the other at the moment, because as far as I'm aware there's not much for campaign finance reform on the horizon. And it'll be interesting to see what kind of punishment is handed out for violating our current campaign finance laws, but I'm not holding my breath for incarceration.
- Well there effectively aren't any rules for campaign finance at the presidential level. There's intentionally huge holes they can use to inject billions of dollars. Of course you need lawyers and networks of connections to access those holes, so yeah it's 100% a proto-oligarchy setup. Step two is using the criminal justice system to shut down effective opposition. Which is why giving Trump the duest of processes is so important. If it becomes fashionable to send political opponents to prison then we've effectively lost the game.
  
  To put it into sports it's mid-game and we're down by half the other team's goals. It's not unwinnable but it's not looking great either.
Where does all this money go? Naively, I would think ad campaigns and campaign tours.
- 30 million is 10c for every voter they try to reach. That's about a letter per household if bought in masses.
  
  It's important to look closely so they can't misuse the funds, and they need to be held accountable if they do.

He should try a "improving my polling numbers" weekend blitz.

He can start by dropping all federal government support to Israel and by promoting BDS
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  Let's not forget that a massive segment of the voting electorate still supports Israel, which is the needle to thread.
  
  If you care so much about this, what you can do is go on social media as well as speak to your friends and family about what Israel is doing to influence the polls directly. Reduce the national poll numbers and you'll see a reflection in policy. The slow shift in policy towards Israel has obviously been proportional to the degrading national and international support.
How do you get Millenials and Gen Z'ers to answer their phones for more accurate polls?
- Send me a fuckin email for Christs sake

They gonna stop spamming people to donate now? Nah they'll do a bigger push for regular people's money.

600% match now!

The most used word in my text message app these days is STOP
They think that because I donated to Bernie years ago that it means I want to donate to any shit democratic candidate they put in front of me. The lesson I learned is to never donate to a political candidate ever again.
- There's gotta be more than 2 political parties on my city level elections. I bet there's a candidate whos sensible and who wants to improve my city. I'll buy a yard sign of any who aren't r/d

And trump raised way more by being convicted

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.
- 102% true. Just like the 102,000 people that attended his rally
  
  (/s)
  
  How can you put anything he says out as true?
- 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.
Trump raised more than Biden last election and still lost

This seems like a lot but in 2020 both parties (together) accounted for spending 5.7 Billion dollars on the presidency. Taking that at half, this is 1 percent of what they're expecting to spend. Further, according to Open Secrets, Democrats get about half of their campaign donations from small donations.

That's not a bad thing, I just want to keep this in perspective. It also means Democrats are more likely to listen to voter pressure, you know, if there was some kind of emergent thing going on, say... in the middle east.

It also means Democrats are more likely to listen to voter pressure, you know, if there was some kind of emergent thing going on, say… in the middle east.

Then why haven't they been listening?
- I said more likely, not guaranteed.

Roe v. Wade falling really is paying off for both parties

one gets money because it fell and the other gets money to try and restore rights indefinitely

two party scam

People in denial are downvoting you, but you're pointing out reality. Obama had a chance to do something about it but said it was not a top priority. Politicians love their bargaining chips, but actually solving problems would mean fewer bargaining chips, so they don't tend to solve problems.