I realize I am largely echoing James Joyner’s piece from last week, Trump Got More Donations Than Biden After Conviction, but I was really struck by this headline in Politico: Disappointment and ‘depression’: Biden’s biggest fundraisers watch their advantage vanish.
The headline comes from this:
privately, several Democratic strategists and donors were reeling.
“There was the strategy of raising all this money on the front end so we could have this huge edge,” said one Biden bundler, granted anonymity to speak candidly. “The whole point of it was to come out with a sizable cash advantage and, you know, we’re now even and it’s June. … I have no other word for it other than ‘depression’ among Biden supporters.”
Another major Biden bundler, also granted anonymity, called the development “disappointing, but not surprising.”
But the headline could have come from things like this:
“That early money counted because it allowed for Biden to build out all of these offices, which have been cranking along, and that’s not something Trump can catch up on,” said Alan Kessler, a Pennsylvania-based donor. “Trump can’t get back February, March, April and May, when the Biden campaign was getting boots on the ground.”
As James noted in his post, the Biden campaign has been engaged in a number of early strategic moves, while Trump and the RNC have been dismantling their organization. Moreover, Trump has been siphoning resources to pay legal expenses.
I know Politico and others need the clicks, but the ongoing need to make everything into a horserace narrative is lazy and unhelpful.
I also expect that a lot of Biden fundraisers are happy to make it sound dire, as that is a great fundraising tool!
I have no broader analytical point to make. It is mostly just part of an ongoing lament about the poor quality of more political journalism.
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Author: Steven L. Taylor
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