President Bidenā€™sĀ reelection campaign is pouncing on former President Trumpā€™s fundraising numbers, dubbing its political rival ā€œBroke Donā€ on Thursday.

ā€œNot a Winning Campaign: Broke Don Hides in Basement,ā€ the campaign wrote in an email. ā€œTrump canā€™t raise money, isnā€™t campaigning, and is letting convicts and conspiracy theorists run his campaign.ā€

Election filings made public Wednesday showed Trumpā€™s 2024 campaignĀ brought in $10.9 millionĀ last month, while his joint fundraising committee raised nearly $11 million. It has about $42 million in cash on hand.

Meanwhile, Bidenā€™s campaign operationĀ raised roughly $53 millionĀ in February, which gave it $155 million in cash on hand entering March.

  • Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
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    obvious from the comments why better candidates will never win

    people would rather vote for a system that consistently fails them and then blame other voters for why the country is in the shape it is in

    Trump definitely should not win but that alone should not qualify Biden

    wonder what would happen if all the other people like myself who are not allowed to vote and participate in this ā€œdemocracyā€ were just for the sake of argument able to vote

    Feel confident placing a wager that Trump and Biden both would lose by landslides in that scenario

    Good reason why US makes sure that the dissidents here are unable to vote and participate

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      Fuckā€™s sake not this again

      Iā€™ll just post a link to some factual debunking from yesterday of this little Goebbels-presentation. As happens every time, you werenā€™t able to say any of it wasnā€™t accurate, and abandoned the conversation when it got too much into boring ā€œthis is what happened and what didnā€™t happenā€ land.

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        boring ā€œthis is what happened and what didnā€™t happenā€ land.

        Lol. Itā€™s funny because people literally say ā€œBiden didnā€™t do anythingā€. No, itā€™s Trump that didnā€™t do anything (except cut taxes on the rich).

        Trump literally stopped spending on a plan to fight a pandemic, right before it actually happened. Heā€™s so broke and stupid (and fat).

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          No, itā€™s Trump that didnā€™t do anything (except cut taxes on the rich).

          Hey now, donā€™t forget that he also fucked up the economy by starting a trade war with China.

          And badgered the Fed to cut interest rates in 2019 because the previous two things mentioned were about to start a recession all on their own, which meant there wasnā€™t as much room for lowering them when we really needed it due to the pandemic (which he also made worse by firing the pandemic response team).

          Really, the more you think of it the more you realize Trump did lots of stuff ā€“ itā€™s just that all of it ranged from self-serving to incompetent to malicious.

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          Donā€™t forget that after the pandemic started, rather than simply giving money to hospitals to fund them buying extra PPE, his Department of Health was seizing PPE shipments literally right off the trucks and ā€œredistributingā€ them at a significant markup. It got bad enough that some states started flying in shipments at remote airports in the dead of night like they were dealing cocaine in the 80s.

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      Good reason why US makes sure that the dissidents here are unable to vote and participate

      Oh cry me a fucking river. Youā€™re not being persecuted for your beliefs. The victimization from you is insane.

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      wonder what would happen if all the other people like myself who are not allowed to vote and participate in this ā€œdemocracyā€ were just for the sake of argument able to vote

      Now hold up thereā€¦ why canā€™t you vote?

      Disenfranchisement is a pretty serious issue and it doesnā€™t happen lightly.

      Some states ban felons from voting, some donā€™t. But other than that, so long as you havenā€™t done something silly like renounce your citizenship, you should be able to vote!

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        After careful consideration of their debate style, Iā€™ve come to the conclusion that they cannot vote because they are, in all likelihood, about 12-15 years old.

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      Feel confident placing a wager that Trump and Biden both would lose by landslides in that scenario

      Who would win in that case?