Hillary to Launch Campaign This Weekend With ‘Insane’ Fundraising Push

[brooklynite]

Source: The Daily Beast

After the announcement comes the deluge.

Hillary Clinton will announce her presidential campaign this Sunday, sources in the Clinton operation tell The Daily Beast.

After that, the nascent campaign will embark on a fundraising push that the Clinton camp says will dwarf anything seen in the history of presidential politics.

“They are going to raise in one week what some Republican presidential candidates are going to raise the entire cycle,” said one Clinton aide.

Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/10/hillary-to-launch-campaign-this-weekend-with-insane-fundraising-push.html

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I was briefed to be prepared for this about a month ago.

For those who will disdain the amounts involved, ask yourself what you would have your preferred candidate do differently. We can't abruptly change the Constitution to ban private constructions; and standing on principle will result in not have the financial resources that will be needed to eventually compete with the Republicans.

[Renew Deal]

1. They should get Crazy Eddie to do the commercials

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"Our fundraising is INSANE!!!"

[MannyGoldstein]

3. Hillary Clinton's Christmas in April SALE

For Wall Street and the MIC!

She's giving it all away!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

11. Private special access 50% OFF! Political favors, BOGO!! Wall Streeters get extra coupon savings!!!

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Will it be enough to complete her Maginot line,

in your opinion?

[yallerdawg]

4. Hillary the Barbarian!

"Conan, what is best in life?"

"Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women." - Conan the Barbarian

If money is speech (their rules), let us yell loudest!

I guess most of you don't remember life under Nixon or Reagan or Bush or another Bush. We cannot self-destruct and hand our enemies victory! They have 2 out of 3 branches and a majority of gerrymandered states. Time to turn the tide.

By any means necessary!

[BeyondGeography]

5. Stop apologizing

No one who finds the Clintons appalling will forgive you anyway.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. You have been a fount of wisdom during your entire tenure on this board./NT

[BeyondGeography]

12. DSB

I remember when you went away for awhile. Glad you're back for the upcoming wars.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. "Just When I Thought I Was Out, They Pull Me Back In!"

[djean111]

6. As if Hillary will do anything about Citizens United if she gets to buy the presidency.

The big money is here to stay, methinks. It evidently is more addictive than any Class 1 drug.

She won't be getting any money from me, no matter what happens. Have Jamie Dimon pawn his presidential cuff-links or something.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

13. Why wud Hillary do anything bout Citizens United? The Clinton Foundation has BILLIONS in questionable contributions to donate to her campaign.

[George II]

22. The Clinton Foundation doesn't have "BILLIONS" of anything.

[Darb]

26. I'm afraid I am going to have to call you out for spewing a bullshit teabagger meme.

What gives? Just really "concerned"? Or is there something more going on here?

[misterhighwasted]

7. + 100000 & Thank You for saying what this gist of 2016 is about in the end.

The power of each Party lies in the balance of the Supreme Court.

RW Fascists have known since Reagan that the SC was their path to RW rule in America.

The RW has dismantled the rights of American citizens that we disgust over today, by sending it through the SC.
They have used the power of the SC to decide in their favor, everything from religion, voter rights, money to political elections, LGBT, immigration, corporate power over people & tax evasion, how we travel & move & speak, & what we watch or read, our prison systems, and they have even chosen a President for us.

To have a shot at balancing back this Nation to a place of reason in a country of, by, & for its people, we need to dissolve the RW selected power of the Supreme Court.

THAT IS WHAT THE 2016 ELECTION IS TRULY ABOUT, BOTTOM LINE.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251402402

[Lochloosa]

8. ^^^^THIS^^^

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[George II]

23. That is probably the most important "issue" in the upcoming campaign - Supreme Court nominations

[misterhighwasted]

37. Yes it is the bottom line to advancing any liberal issue on our wish list today.

However we also need a serious number of coattail wins in our legislature to make a liberal SC Judge be ever nominated once chosen by the President. The process is determined by a shift in power from Pres through Congress & Senate.

SCourt is the big prize, most definitely.

[cosmicone]

9. Go Hillary!!

Since most donors give in proportion to the odds of winning, Hillary will and should accumulate a war chest that even Kockroaches cannot threaten.

We have to elect a democrat ... let's not gamble the chance away on some lesser known. Also, remember, no matter how liberal one may think a "candidate" is, if elected, that person moves to the center. Look what happened to Obama.

[djean111]

15. We have been loftily informed that, if only we had looked past that catchy "Hope and Change"

thing, we would have realized that Obama is no Liberal.

Good to see the acknowledgement that the important thing is money, and not policy, though.
Really, eBay the presidency. Have a telethon. Keep a running total on the big sign in Times Square. Be honest about it.
Don't waste time on two hundred advisers to figure out what campaign blather to spout.

[cosmicone]

16. Your sarcasm notwithstanding,

we live in a media age where reaching people costs money and even a small error can be magnified and be catastrophic.

So, money may not be the be all and end all, it is absolutely necessary and not necessarily evil.

Would you rather have a candidate that has identical views as you but is waiting for the next donation to come in for bus fare while the opposition is blasting airwaves defining him/her as evil?

However, I must hand it to the Hillary haters. If Hillary managed to rain several tons of gold bricks in your yard, you'd complain that your lawn got damaged.

[djean111]

20. I don't hate Hillary. I just don't want her as my president.

A distinction that seems to be really difficult for some people.

In addition, it looks like Hillary supporters have managed to corner the market on hyperbole - gnashing teeth, hair on fire, HATERS!!! - violent (and a bit vengeful, LOL) group, indeed.

[merrily]

31. Identical views is a fairy tale. So is the implication that there is nothing

between lacking bus fare and billions of dollars in "hard" and "soft" money.

So is "Hillary haters."

So is complaining about Hillary no matter what.

[misterhighwasted]

38. + 10000 This ^

Thank you

[nolabels]

17. So that's why it says " IN GOD WE TRUST" on that Dollar

Of course, that need to believe in a thing called "GOD" would probably be a prerequisite

[merrily]

34. Of course, if you want to know what will resonate with poor voters about income

inequality, you hire over 200 people who are very well off.

[Iliyah]

18. I'm in. Will volunteer for her campaign.

I can see 2016 election going into a trillion or more and just not for President, other races included. The Billionaire Club United and foreign campaign donations. Citizen United has destroyed the USA's political environment and "we the people" don't mean a hill of beans to the 1-2%ers.

Also, voter suppression laws will rampantly go on the extreme rise. Will HRC if she becomes President along with (hopefully) a Dem Senate try and undo Citizen United - I believe so.

[Comrade Grumpy]

19. Hell, she's gonna raise so much money, you might as well get paid.

[merrily]

29. Volunteers and smaller donations help keep the hoi polloi invested in a campaign.

[Agnosticsherbet]

21. Finally, we can start the campaign. Webb, O'malley, and Sanders should also delcare

withing a few weeks, so we can stop talking about maybe's, what if's, dream candidates.

[merrily]

28. Odd: when Hillary was scheduled to announce in July, DU supporters said things like

"Smart." and "Good for her." Now, people who are much less well heeled and much less well funded than Hillary are wrong not to have announced yesterday.

[Agnosticsherbet]

30. I don't speak for others. I would like to see all Candidates declare so we can discuss issues.

The reasons people are declaring now has something to do with declaration of donations and fund raising.

I also heard Sanders was going to declare, probably for similar reasons.

It should be a good race.

[merrily]

33. No one said you spoke for others and we've always had the ability to discuss issues.

Hillary and/or her camp have announced several dates for her announcement, ranging from the first of this year, to March, to April, to July and now back to April. So, all those dates probably have benefits and disadvantages.

When you declare affects fund-raising in many ways, some that advantage the candidate and some that do not. But none of us knows what the motives of the candidates are.

For example, after the email kerfuffle, many commentators noted that Hillary could not have campaign surrogates addressing because, technically, she had no campaign yet. They speculated that would make her announce soon. Were they right? I that why the date got moved back from July to April again? Was that their speculation or something they came up with after talking off the record with Hillary and her advisors? I have no idea.

[Agnosticsherbet]

35. I read this as an attack on Hillary Clinton.

The Supreme Court changed the climate of our elections with their decisions.

Complaining about raising vast sums of money is the equivalent of complaining that we must breathe.

This will be a 5.5 to 6 billion dollar election.

If we can't compete, then we should just surrender everything to the Republicans.

[merrily]

36. What did you read as an attack on Hillary Clinton? The OP article?

(meaning, the Daily Beast story, not brooklynite)

[Agnosticsherbet]

39. The article. I agree that this is the environment we live in.

Before Hillary, Obama was the person who held the record for funds raised.

[merrily]

40. I did not see any complaining that she was raising money.

Also, it seems that someone from her campaign was the source of the info. This may have been their way of framing the fundraising before anyone else does.

[alcibiades_mystery]

24. Progressives should stand by their principles and raise ZERO dollars this election cycle

Anything more would be a surrender to neoliberal corporatism!!!!

[FSogol]

46. DUzy! Oh wait, that's what some people think?

[Beacool]

25. The anti-Clinton crowd will complain no matter what she does.

I think that it's great that a candidate on the Democratic side will be able to amass as much money as the Republicans. The presidential run will cost way over a $1B and Democrats tend to lag behind in fundraising. There are enough RW billionaires to finance their candidate of choice, we need to be competitive.

[Shoulders of Giants]

44. I hate the idea that our country is bought and paid for.

I should start out by saying that I have no special hatred for Hillary that I don't have for any other "mainstream" politician. Almost all mainstream politicians suck. However, she did vote for the Iraq War, the biggest blunder of my lifetime. That makes her unqualified to be president in my opinion (and of course Joe Biden as well). However, most people have short memories and will forgive her (I won't). She also has the corporate lobbyists backing her because she supports a lot of their policies. She may be a D to the Republicans F, but I'm not ready to throw in the towel. You yourself don't even seem to support her. Your reasoning here seems to be a Machiavellian real politic reasoning, and not because you believe she will be great. I actually think she will win the whole election, but that doesn't mean I support her. I understand her potentially being the "lessor of two evils" but my votes will go to people I support (especially considering I don't live in a swing state). I haven't given up on society yet enough to vote for the least offensive corporate stooge war supporter.

[merrily]

27. AFAIK, no one has proven that you have to match or outspend the other candidate.

Anyway, Hillary's been fundraising for some time.

[Agnosticsherbet]

32. All contenders will needto raise unpredicented amounts of money. That is the nature of poloitics

since the Supreme Court screwed the pooch.

The Koch Brothers have already set up 800 million dollars to spend.

I'll bet their wallets will screech open for Republicans and vomit up more cash.

[dolphinsandtuna]

41. A lot of money wasted. Sure hope Biden is elected.

That's where my money is going.

[Shoulders of Giants]

45. I honestly can't think of a single major policy difference between the two.

If I had to vote for one of them, it would probably be Hillary though, because she would be less likely to grope women she just met.

[dolphinsandtuna]

47. policy difference

Biden is competent. Hillary is not:

Healthcare during her DH's administration.
Foreign Affairs - Libya hellhole, all hail Apartheid Israel, Arab Spring.
Mess of 2012 campaign administration.
Courageous nuder sniper fire. Oops, maybe not.

Also, Biden supporters don't engage in smear campaigns, ex: your post.

[Shoulders of Giants]

48. I'm not a Hillary supporter

And Biden groping women is a fact, not a "smear campaign." That actually has nothing to do with politics. Its simply a man not respecting boundaries.

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/yfmksi/the-audacity-of-grope


And all those things you just mentioned are things Biden is involved in. He is the VP. For the record, I won't be voting for either Hillary or Biden in the primary. So I don't care about getting in this apple vs oranges debate when I'm not a supporter of either side. Ultimately both are centrists who if run, will reach out to the corporations for funding. Both voted for the Iraq War. Both didn't support gay marriage until it was politically convenient. True, both are better than most Republicans, but that's all they have going for them.

[Adrahil]

49. Biden won't run... And as much as I love him...

He is a TERRIBLE candidate.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

42. Should I expect a request for a donation?

I'm guessing I'm too "small potatoes", based on previous donations to candidates.

Not anywhere near Wall St.

[Shoulders of Giants]

43. I still haven't forgetten she voted for the Iraq War.

She will probably win the primary, but it won't be with my help.

[TekGryphon]

50. I donated! F#$@ the hand-wringing aristocratic puppets on DU and elsewhere!

On Facebook, at work, and among friends I see a lot of enthusiasm for Hillary. Yet as surely as the aristocrats convince conservatives to go to the voting booth for bigotry and narcissism, so too have they been hard at work trying to convince people to stay home with their "both sides are the same" fallacy.

Will Hillary be perfect? Hell no, but neither was Obama and I LOVE the job he's done despite the constant hand-wringing from self-proclaimed "purists" here on DU. I notice those same "purists" have now transferred their hatred to Clinton, just as smoothly as they have on Fox News and Drudge Report.

Y'all can go ahead and sit this election out, but I think I speak for a lot of people here when I say: "I DON'T GIVE A F***."

I'll donate enough for the both of us and hit the pavement besides.

[Corey_Baker08]

51. That Is Contrary To Her Publicly Announced Schedule