81 million in 24 hours.. don't pull a muscle spinning that.. And the latest poll?
Well, I got it from a liberal podcast, but....ok?
The money wasn't raised because of Harris, it was because of Biden dropping out.
But if you're willing to take those numbers on face value, and assume that Kamala Harris, a candidate who didn't even make it to the Iowa Caucuses in her own primary, raised more money organically from new donors than even prime Obama was able to, enjoy.
Just remember, the figures are coming from Act Blue:
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O’Keefe’s reporting obviously raises the question of whether money from wealthy donors — including potentially foreign donors — is being laundered through supposedly “grassroots” ActBlue donors. In response to O’Keefe’s coverage, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent a letter to the Federal Election Commission, “demanding the agency investigate alarming reports of widespread fraudulent donations by ActBlue.” The FEC responded by stating that ActBlue “does not require a card verification value number for online donations,” which increases the risk of fraud. So the idea is that some fraud may have occurred, but no one really knows.
There are some other reasons to doubt the fundraising numbers we’re hearing today. For example, ActBlue has publicly pledged to match “900 percent” of donations to Harris’ campaign in recent days. So at the moment it’s not exactly clear how much money is being rerouted to Harris from ActBlue itself, in the form of “matching donations.” (ActBlue is a vast fundraising apparatus that can allocate money across its various campaigns). What we can be certain of is that there’s very little oversight of fundraising platforms like this, as one Kari Lake adviser, Caroline Wren, just pointed out.
I'm sure it's all on the up and up and not the typical Democratic playbook method of getting alignment on talking points to attempt to sway reality.
