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Happy #FECFilingDay for those who celebrate. But Zach, you ask, wasn't filing day last week? It was for quarterly filers! Today's the deadline for monthly filers: the Trump and Biden campaigns, party committees and a lot of super PACs. I'll thread interesting stuff here
And make sure you're subscribed to Morning Score if you're not already! We'll have a full roundup of the filers in tomorrow's edition https://www.politico.com/morningscore/
. @TulsiGabbard, who dropped out halfway through March, raised $449,000 and spent $915,000. Expenditures that stuck out to me: Print and radio advertising in American Samoa (where she won her only delegates) totaling about $6,000. Good return on investment! http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00693713/1402317/
Don Blankenship, the failed Senate candidate who famously coined Cocaine Mitch, is now running for president with the Constitution Party. He didn't spend a dime in March. Not gonna get many votes ... but how's he even going to qualify to be on the ballot? https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00725309/1402358/
Progressives seem to be coalescing around @SamelysLopez in the open #NY15, one of the bluest districts in the nation. @AOC's newish leadership PAC Courage to Change maxed out to Lopez, and other prominent New York progressives have backed her as well https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00692202/1397462/sb/ALL
(I really wanted to go up to NYC to write a story on this primary because it is super interesting to me, but coronavirus has really ruined that, ugh)
I'm also going to thread some quarterly filers that I haven't had a chance to read yet into this thread while we wait (like AOC's leadership PAC), so don't get too confused! Didn't have time to tackle all of the quarterly filers last week, with all the candidate filings
Here's @BernieSanders filing (reminder, this covers the month of March). He raised just under $33 million and spent $35.5 million. Still had $16.2 million in the bank at the end of the month https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00696948/1402435/
Interestingly, Sanders raised more from itemized donors ($16.9 million) than unitemized ($15.9 million), which I think is the first time that's happened. As I've said on past filing deadlines, that's not because of a rush of big donors. An old thread: https://twitter.com/ZachMontellaro/status/1223439515957846018
