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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
Really? who are these millionaires?
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Some of his biggest bundlers...
https://www.documentcloud.org/docume...-Bundlers.html
Elmendorf is the most important, because although his personal net worth isn't clear, he's responsible for tens of thousands of dollars in donations from companies like Amazon and Disney. As far as I know, Pete is the only candidate who's accepting money from lobbyists. More than half of Pete's donations come from large individual donors.
https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-pre...e?id=N00044183
Compare that to Sanders, where the number is less than 20%.
https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-pre...e?id=N00000528
Pete isn't really some outsider relying on grassroots support. He's much more like a candidate built in a lab as some ivory tower ideal. His donor profile is much more like Harris's and Biden's. The guy kind of sums up what white coastal elites think should go into picking a Presidential Candidate - someone who'll say "I'm a really smart guy, look how smart I am personally, I should be running things" - making the campaign about him personally, rather than talking about how he would solve problems or what he's actually
for. He'll speak in vague platitudes and tell anecdotes and stories from the campaign trail and sound very compelling and likable doing so, and he'll avoid, at all costs, taking policy stances, because committing to do anything might scare off some potential voter somewhere.
I don't know if he'd beat Trump or not, but that strikes me as a bad strategy.