Democrats raised over $1 billion this past election cycle. Republicans raised $394 million. You do the math about which party is the chosen one for billionaires.
Every election cycle brings its own brand of excitement -- and lots of money. For past cycles as well as the current one, here is where you can find out who raised the most, where it came from, the most (and least) expensive races, top donors, how incumbents did versus challengers and more.
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1.16 billion for the democrats, 638 million for the Republicans. (Presidential, we aren't talking the house and senate races)
The Republicans got more from PACs (by an order of magnitude), while the Democrats got more from individuals. (That pattern also holds for House and Senate races.)
Or, if you prefer to look at it including the outside money...
As we inch closer to the 2024 election, we begin to see groups working on behalf of each of the most serious White House hopefuls – leadership PACs, super PACs, 501(c)(4) dark money outlets and more – crop up and start spending in support of their favored candidates.
www.opensecrets.org
Harris -> $1,994,938,580
Trump -> $1,439,768,875
With Trump's money coming mostly from Outside money and not Campaign money.
And, of course, only 6 people donated more than 100 million dollars to the parties in this election cycle.
Who are the biggest donors in the 2024 election cycle? See the details.
www.opensecrets.org
Those were all to Republicans.
So yeah, doing the math, it is pretty clear who the oligarchs and billionaires chose overall.
At least in terms of putting their money where their mouths are.
Trump had these billionaire CEO's there because he wanted to make a statement to the world. That the US is open for business.
Agreed.
Open for business, bribes accepted, you can pay us off and get what you want from the US government.
Pro-billionaire, fuck the working American.
That was exactly the statement he made to the world.
This talk of fascism is ridiculousness.
No, no.
The cultural MAGA bit was also important.
That's how they intend to get the typical American to not object to the billionaires and corruption.