Reflecting on what we talk about at Biden Basement Headquarters. Most of it is about money. How will we raise it, how much do we have, how we will spend it, how much Trump has raised. How can he raise so much money?
Reportedly, Trump raised $10 million Thursday night at one fundraiser. This isn’t the first $10 million dollar night either. He had one right before lock down in Florida. Now, back to in-person campaigning at his first event – $10 million. I have to say “reportedly” because, unlike 2016, we don’t have spies in the campaign and wiretaps on the phones. So we have to guess a little.
I had a HUGE virtual fundraiser the same night. We had hundreds of people and big name celebs like Jay Leno, Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, Barbara Streisand (and more!) – and we raised about 1/10 of what Trump did by himself.
My biggest fundraising day recently was a $2 million haul when Hillary held a virtual fundraiser. The key to my fundraisers really are that OTHER people run them and do most of the talking …. Jill, Amy, Hillary, Mayor Pete, Governor Hair Do Newsome, Kamala, Pocahontas, Beto.. I only have to talk for a couple of minutes – and the others take over and run it. But we can’t have 10 of these a day to try and match Trump.
We have about a week to announce the May fundraising numbers. With creative accounting – pushing much of the Floyd/Minnesota fueled fundraising that occurred the first week of June back into the May numbers, we may get close to matching Trump for May. But then June won’t look as great. Especially with Trump back into full campaign mode.
But, we are also negotiating with BLM and all the various ActBlue charities to get some of the money raised in these large dollar contributions for the MN bail fund or from corporations for protest protections, etc … creatively rerouting these for our campaign. That will help with June. Hey, if people are giving money without knowing exactly where it is going – that’s on them.
Sometimes I think that if we spent less time talking about money and how to get it… and more time actually figuring out how to fix the problems and issues of the country, if we put just a little true grit and effort into dealing with education in the minority neighborhoods and reforming all institutions—if we found better ways to deal with our problems instead of spending all our time finding better ways to get people to send money in for the campaign… if we truly cared about the problems and came up with solutions… the world would be a better place. I wonder if Trump and his campaign people are out there looking at the same sky, thinking the same thing.
Come on, folks.