{"id":1974627,"date":"2023-07-16T17:06:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T21:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-reelection-campaign-struggling-to-gain-small-donors-compared-to-past-presidents\/"},"modified":"2023-07-16T17:09:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T21:09:01","slug":"biden-reelection-campaign-struggling-to-gain-small-donors-compared-to-past-presidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-reelection-campaign-struggling-to-gain-small-donors-compared-to-past-presidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s reelection campaign faces challenges in attracting small donors, unlike previous presidents."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-reelection-campaign-struggling-to-gain-small-donors-compared-to-past-presidents%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1974627&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>President \u2064Biden&#8217;s \u200bFundraising Efforts \u200bShow \u200da \u2064Shift\u200d in\u2064 Donor\u200b Base<\/h2>\n<p>President \u2063Joe Biden&#8217;s \u2062campaign is celebrating\u2064 impressive\u2063 fundraising\u2064 totals,\u2063 but\u2062 there&#8217;s an\u2063 interesting \u200ctwist. \u200bWhile \u200dthe numbers are high, the\u2062 majority \u2064of\u2063 donations are coming from \u2063wealthy\u2063 donors \u200brather \u2062than\u2064 small \u200dcontributors. This\u2063 suggests that Biden\u200c may be facing\u2062 challenges \u200cin \u2064appealing to individual donors, a\u2062 group that \u200cplayed a crucial role in\u200d his 2020\u2064 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Biden and\u2064 Vice\u2064 President Kamala \u200dHarris, along\u200d with \u2064the broader\u200c Democratic Party, have\u200b managed to\u200c raise \u2062over\u2064 $72 million\u200c since\u2064 the\u200c president\u200c announced his reelection campaign\u2063 in\u2064 April. \u200dHowever, it&#8217;s \u200cworth noting that most\u200b of these \u2064donations\u200c are coming from \u200daffluent individuals.\u200d Additionally, \u2064nearly\u2062 a third \u2062of \u2062the \u2062total 394,000 \u2063donors did\u200b not contribute\u200d to \u200cBiden \u2064during the \u200b2020 election.<\/p>\n<h3>The Importance\u200c of\u2064 Small Donors<\/h3>\n<p>The\u200d small-donor base that played \u2063a significant role\u2063 in Biden&#8217;s\u200d victory over\u2064 former President \u2064Donald Trump \u2064in \u200c2020 and \u200chelped \u2063Democrats maintain\u2063 a \u200bSenate \u2062majority during \u2064the\u2063 2022 \u2062midterm\u2064 elections has\u200b not yet shown \u2062the \u200dsame\u2062 level\u2064 of \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/major-payment-processor-works-with-left-wing-charity-tied-to-palestinian-terrorism\/\" title=\"Payment processor partners with Palestinian terrorism-linked left-wing charity.\">financial \u2063support<\/a> for \u200dthe \u20622024 \u200belection.<\/p>\n<p>According \u2064to the \u2064Federal Election \u200dCommission, \u2063the \u200dBiden \u2062campaign and the Biden Victory Fund raised \u200b$10.2\u200c million\u2063 from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/toyota-doubles-down-defends-donations-to-republicans-after-online-outrage\/\" title=\"Toyota Doubles Down, Defends Donations To Republicans After Online Outrage\">small donors<\/a> \u200d(those \u2062who\u200d gave\u200b $200\u200c or \u200cless)\u2064 during the\u2064 three-month \u200bfundraising period that ended \u200bon \u2063June \u200c30.<\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s \u2064important to consider\u200b the\u2063 context of the previous \u200delections. The \u200d2020 and \u20622022\u2062 elections \u200cwere\u2062 driven by \u200bsocial\u2062 and cultural issues,\u200c such as\u2063 the\u200d desire to\u2063 remove Trump \u2064from office, concerns about \u200celection\u200c fraud, the potential overturning of \u200dRoe\u200d v.\u2064 Wade, \u200dand\u2063 the January 6, 2021 \u200criot \u2063at the \u2063Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore,\u2062 Biden&#8217;s reelection campaign has \u200dmaintained \u2062a \u200drelatively\u2064 low-profile\u2062 compared \u2064to\u200c previous Democratic\u200d candidates like \u200cSen. Bernie Sanders \u2063(I-VT)\u200d and\u200c former President \u2063Barack\u2062 Obama.\u200d During \u200dthe \u200csame \u200bthree-month quarter, \u200cObama\u200d raised $21\u2064 million for\u200d his 2012\u2062 reelection campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Comparatively,\u2062 Biden&#8217;s small-donor support\u200d falls\u200b behind\u2062 Trump&#8217;s 2020\u200b reelection \u200dcampaign. While\u200d 21%\u2064 of Biden&#8217;s \u200dfunds \u2064came \u2063from small \u2063donors, \u2064Trump received \u200c35% \u200bof his funds\u2063 from \u200bthis group.<\/p>\n<p>Despite\u200c the \u2064lower number of\u200c small donors, \u200bBiden is still surpassing \u2064the small donor \u200btotals\u200d of\u2062 Republican \u2063candidates.\u2064 Combined, GOP\u200b candidates\u2063 have raised $7.5\u2062 million from small donors, \u2062while \u200cBiden has raised\u2064 $10.2\u2063 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click \u2063here<\/a>\u200b to\u200d read more\u200d from\u200c The Washington \u2064Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once Democratic donors\u2062 become \u200cfocused\u200d on the\u2062 Republican \u2064primary and \u2062what&#8217;s at \u2062stake\u2063 in the\u200b 2024\u200d election,\u2064 the\u2062 Biden\u200b campaign\u200b will have no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-reelection-campaign-struggling-to-gain-small-donors-compared-to-past-presidents\/\" title=\"Biden's reelection campaign faces challenges in attracting small donors, unlike previous presidents.\">problem \u2062raising record\u200c amounts<\/a> \u200bof\u2064 money \u2064online,&#8221; said \u200bLauren Miller, who \u200dserved \u200cas digital director \u2063to\u2063 Elizabeth\u2063 Warren&#8217;s Senate \u200dcampaigns, \u2064in\u200d an interview with The New \u2064York Times.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 Washington Examiner \u2064reached\u200b out\u2062 to \u200dBiden&#8217;s campaign\u200d for \u200ccomment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>million in the first quarter of 2021. However, the majority of these funds were contributed by larger donors, indicating a potential challenge for Biden in connecting with smaller contributors compared to his successful 2020 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1974628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1974627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1974628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}