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Once ignored, underfunded and often written off, Democratic state party organizations are harvesting record-setting cash heading into the 2020 election, reasserting their roles inside the Democratic infrastructure after suffering for years in competition with super PACs and campaigns.
Across 15 possible battleground states, nearly every Democratic state party group is hitting higher quarterly fundraising totals or holding more cash on hand in their federal accounts than they did at this point during the 2016 presidential campaign, and a majority of them did both, according to a POLITICO analysis of Federal Election Commission filings and in interviews with party officials. Many of these state parties responsible for field operations and coordinating a ticket-wide campaign are seeing three, four or five times the amount of cash they did before.
Those surges are happening in traditional swing states like Pennsylvania and Florida as well as emerging targets for Democrats like Texas and Arizona. The Arizona Democratic Party raised $4.6 million in the second quarter, a more than 300 percent increase over its haul at this point in 2016, while Texas is sitting on five times more cash than it had at this point in 2016. North Carolina banked more than doubled its 2016 totals, from $2.5 million to just under $6 million, and racked up its strong online fundraising numbers in June since late 2018. Wisconsin, a stand out among the states, brought in a record-breaking $10 million last quarter.
The influx of money is giving an organizing boost to Joe Biden, Senate Democrats and other candidates heading into November 2020. Presidential candidates typically spend the final months of an election anxiously shoveling money toward state parties to fund get-out-the-vote operations and other critical infrastructure, but Democrats are running ahead of schedule this year.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/30/dems-pour-record-cash-into-battleground-state-parties-389082
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Saving cash for a push later?
Or is his campaign just cratering
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)We're also coming up on the July 31 reporting deadline for campaign finance reports. Reports this week had the Trump campaign going dark in Michigan, and I've seen some posts that while Trump has raised more money, Biden currently has more cash on hand. Which suggests that for all the money Trump's spent so far, it's resulted in a double digit nationwide lead for Biden. Womp and womp.
Former campaign manager and disgusting slug Brad Parscale has been sidelined, and it's not clear who's going to be calling the campaign shots. Trump keeps yapping about his internal polling, but nobody outside the campaign has seen any such polling. Considering how much Trump could use some good news this week, even internal polls would look good next to the plummeting GDP.
If you look at the campaign and see a round smoking pit in the ground, you can draw a justified conclusion.