Thread by @bykowicz, 2.2 million people donated to Bernie Sanders. Just 60,000 of that group [...]

Julie Bykowicz

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2.2 million people donated to Bernie Sanders. Just 60,000 of that group gave to Joe Biden.

⁦Analyzing the Democratic small donor universe w/ @ChadSDay⁩ https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-finds-bernie-sanderss-donors-elusive-11590156897

Joe Biden Finds Bernie Sanders’s Donors Elusive

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has yet to unlock a key part of the party’s fundraising base less than six months before Election Day: Bernie Sanders’s army of online small...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-finds-bernie-sanderss-donors-elusive-11590156897

“It’s not an ATM, you can’t just tap it and it spits out money.” - the Sanders campaign’s former digital communications director on the vaunted email list

Biden got big fundraising bumps when Sanders endorsed him, when he used Warren’s email list & he has a huge (virtual) Buttigieg event coming up.

Plus some 200k people who hadn’t given to any 2020 candidate donated to Biden last month, our WSJ analysis found.

Update on that Buttigieg event for Biden:
https://twitter.com/rob_flaherty/status/1263926591824056320?s=21 https://twitter.com/Rob_Flaherty/status/1263926591824056320

https://twitter.com/rob_flaherty/status/1263926591824056320?s=21

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