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What are you not getting here? HARRIS HAD MORE MONEY. HARRIS SPENT MORE MONEY. HARRIS LOST.

Harris campaign took in HALF A BILLION MORE THAN TRUMP in direct contributions. In terms of dark money, her Super PAC, Future Forward USA, took in $423 million while Trump’s PAC, Maga America Great Again Inc., took in $280 million. Even if you look at all the Super PAC money spent on the presidential race in 2024,
$889 million was spent on pro-Harris/anti-Trump messaging, while only $834 million was spent on pro-Trump/anti-Harris messaging. Any way you slice it, the money was on Harris’ side, not Trump’s.

You’ve got a narrative in your head that the billionaires all teamed up and used their money to defeat Harris, but it’s based on nothing but your feelings and assumptions, not reality. And remember, you’re the one who started off claiming that if Bernie couldn’t beat the DNC conspiring against him, he couldn’t beat billionaires and their Super PAC money. But now you’re the one who won’t accept that the money was on Harris’ side this election and she fucking lost.

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Wait, the narrative is that money doesn’t matter at all, when your numbers explicitly call out that the difference is only 10%?

lol, what a fucking idiotic talking point.

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…no, not what I said. 10% in PAC money on top of half a billion in direct campaign spending.

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What are you not getting?

Spending more doesn’t guarantee a win because not everything a campaign does to increase votes is equally effective or equal in cost. Is that not reality?

But spending less means less resources for the campaign which limits what the campaign is capable of. Is that not reality?

Bernie can’t compete with only grassroots donations. You’re feelings and opinions won’t change that.

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Bernie can’t compete with only grassroots donations.

Literally all of the data I shared says the fucking opposite, dude! On top of that, Trump was running a grassroots campaign in 2016 that broke GOP records for small-donor money, and he won even though Clinton out-spent him. So, what actual evidence do you have to back up your assertions here? Or is it just the vibes?

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Literally none of the data you shared says the opposite.

You shared an opinion piece about Bloomberg and a chart of Super PAC spending.

Literally none of the data you shared says the opposite.

On top of that, Trump was running a grassroots campaign in 2016 that broke GOP records for small-donor money, and he won even though Clinton out-spent him.

Fact Sheet: What We Know about Russia’s Interference Operations

You’re gonna pretend Trump is running a grassroots campaign without Russian backing?

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