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Small-dollar Bernie sidles up to big money
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP May 22, 2019 06:48am |
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| Category | Strategy |
| Author | HOLLY OTTERBEIN and MAGGIE SEVERNS |
| News Date | Wednesday, May 22, 2019 10:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Bernie Sanders — who swore off big-money fundraisers and criticized Hillary Clinton’s fundraising as “obscene” during the 2016 campaign — is changing his approach as the scramble for Democratic campaign cash heats up.
The Vermont senator has decided to hold in-person fundraising events where donors of all means will be invited and the media will be allowed. He has also hired a fundraiser to oversee the effort, a position he did not have in his 2016 bid.
The moves, described by campaign sources to POLITICO, amount to an acknowledgment by Sanders that his online-only approach to raising money was leaving significant amounts of money on the table. That cash could be decisive in a primary with nearly two dozen candidates competing fiercely for money: Sanders’ top rival, Democratic front-runner Joe Biden, is raking in huge sums from major Democratic donors in the early weeks of the race with a slew of fundraisers. |
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