Sunday was the single biggest day for online Democratic donations in years — a significant show of enthusiasm after weeks of sluggish fund-raising.
Democrats greeted President Biden’s departure from the presidential race with an avalanche of cash, donating more than $50 million online on Sunday and making it the single biggest day for online Democratic contributions since the 2020 election — with hours to go.
The huge amount is based on a New York Times analysis of the online ticker of contributions maintained by ActBlue, the leading site processing Democratic donations.
With Mr. Biden gone and Vice President Kamala Harris building momentum to claim the nomination, Democrats went online to contribute at a startling pace. Donations spiked from an average of less than $200,000 per hour in the hours before Mr. Biden quit to nearly $11.5 million in a single hour later on Sunday, the analysis shows.
I have a lot of respect for Biden. It takes a lot to admit that you might not be fit to serve anymore after listening to his peers, the public, and doctors and deciding to step down. I would have voted for him anyway, but it’s rare to see someone forfeit their position like that.
It won’t really change my party vote, but I guess I have some reading to do in the next few weeks.
My mindset was that the presidency is like the one ring in terms of its allure, corrupting influence, and sheer power. A wicked man only recently made a fairly credible effort to destroy the country to keep it, defeated by the unexpected resistance of his right hand man who feared allowing his victory. It all reads very much like a modern day Tolkienesque about the fragility of men’s honor, and so I did not really believe that Biden, after a lifetime of earnestly seeking the white house, would stand down from the pursuit. Whatever happens next, it was an impressive display of character.
I did and you should too: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/joe-biden-3
Yes it says Joe Biden, and yes it goes directly to Kamala.
kamalaharris.org now redirects to https://secure.actblue.com/donate/web-bfp-july21-2024
Not sure if that goes to the same place or not.
$30 million so far. And this is just from ActBlue, so it doesn’t count big PAC donations from the super wealthy. I wouldn’t be shocked if this sets a single day record overall, since many of the big dollar donors were holding their money to pressure Biden to drop out. Probably won’t quite hit that $73.5 million ActBlue record after RBG died.
NYT references one other day that beat $50 million. I’m guessing after Dobbs? Can anyone confirm that?
Up to $47 million now, and that’s after only 8 hours after the announcement of Biden stepping down. And that’s just act blue small dollar donors. Definitely plowing right through that $53 million 24 hour haul that other guy got when he became a convicted felon.
Apprently unofficial trackers have the one day total at 67 million now, but no hard numbers from actblue yet.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Democrats greeted President Biden’s departure from the presidential race with an avalanche of cash, donating more than $30 million online on Sunday and making it the single biggest day for online Democratic contributions since the 2020 election — with hours still to go.
The massive amount is based on a New York Times analysis of the online ticker of contributions maintained by ActBlue, the leading site processing Democratic donations.
With Mr. Biden gone and Vice President Kamala Harris building momentum to claim the nomination, Democrats went online to contribute at a startling pace.
The previous single biggest day for donations on ActBlue came the day after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away in September 2020.
The latest deluge is significant as the party seeks to recover from a month of political infighting and stalled momentum in the race against former President Donald J. Trump.
Party fund-raising had slowed considerably among major Democratic donors in the weeks after Mr. Biden’s poor debate performance.
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It’s always funny watching Democrats, out of one side of their mouth, saying, we need to get money out of politics, out of the other side of their mouth they are excited about their politician raising X millions of dollars.
There’s no conflict there. We can talk about campaign finance reform all day, but if we’re not also talking about winning under the current set of rules and conditions it won’t matter what we think.
Motherfucker complaining we are taking guns to a gun fight.
Just point and laugh
