NEW: Joe Biden is set to host over 250 Wall Street and big money donors tonight in New York.

[Donkees]

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

1. Shocking

Not

[Squinch]

2. Let me guess: "This should disqualify him!!1!!" Right?

[totodeinhere]

21. Not necessarily, but the more information we have about our candidates the better.

There is nothing wrong with taking this information into consideration.

[FoxNewsSucks]

30. That depends,

will Biden tell them to open their wallets and donate to his campaign? Or will he tell them they and their corporations are gonna have to open their wallets and start paying taxes like the rest of us?

[Politicub]

3. I hope he rakes in a good haul. We need every resource we can muster to defeat Trump.

Buying media airtime is not cheap nor is hiring the best staff to work on a campaign.

We don't have time to exchange the perfect for the good as to maintain electoral purity. We need to deal with money in politics, but can attack it once the democratic party has power again. We would be idiots to hamstring ourselves by forgoing possible legal sources of funding.

[totodeinhere]

24. As long as his contributors don't expect favors in return.

We don't need a few big contributors controlling our agenda. What we need to do is promote programs that benefit everybody, not just the very rich who can afford to contribute so much. And of course the solution to this is campaign finance reform and the repeal of Citizens United.

[tblue37]

26. +1. nt

[TwilightZone]

4. And?

It takes money to win elections. Just ask Our Revolution.

[denem]

5. Will Mike be there?

It's over. Joe show avoid further humiliations and suspend his campaign.

[OhZone]

9. Sure

And Clinton should have given up after losing Iowa and NH in 92?

[denem]

13. Iowa was not contested in '92.

Harkin owned it. The first contest was NH.

[OhZone]

35. So

then Biden has even more right to stay in! ha

[denem]

38. Biden has earned right to stay in as long as he can.

I'm not going to argue otherwise. Let's leave it at that.

[cwydro]

23. Joe Biden is no Bill Clinton.

He’s just not.

[OhZone]

37. Neither is Sanders -

Actually no one is anyone other than who they are.

[cwydro]

44. Absolutely.

Very true.

[msongs]

6. anit-big money bernie rakes in $40 mil, bad mouths the influence of money in politics lol nt

[squirecam]

7. Everyone else is here in NV

Joe should be too.

[krissey]

8. Good for Joe. Get the $

[KPN]

10. It's over. Put a fork in him. He's done. That and emails did us in last time around. Won't

happen again.

Let me amend and put it this way. Maybe this will provide some life support to Joe's campaign. Maybe he'll get a boost from South Carolina. But beyond that, he's cooked. My gut tells me he won't and can't win and this just exacerbates his negatives.

We'll see how well my gut is.

[jmg257]

11. Woo Hoo - a million+$ !

The guest list shows there will be at least 280 attendees split between the two events and each have contributed $2,800 to gain entrance. Nobody has dropped out of attending, these people noted.

The fundraisers come at a key moment for Biden’s campaign. They indicate that the former vice president still has the support and at least some confidence of big-money donors on Wall Street and in other industries. Biden is going to need to keep raking in the cash to have the necessary resources to win the South Carolina primary Feb. 29 and to perform well during the 14 primaries on Super Tuesday, March 3.

Yet the donors’ support might not be guaranteed for long. Many of the Thursday attendees have privately acknowledged that they would throw their support toward former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s campaign if Biden doesn’t have success in the Nevada caucuses Feb. 22 and the South Carolina primary.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/13/joe-biden-hosts-wall-street-donors-at-ny-fundraisers-as-campaign-struggles.html?__source=sharebar|twitter&par=sharebar


$$$ $$$

[Sloumeau]

12. Awesome! Thanks for the great news! :) nt

[guillaumeb]

14. And these 250 have 250 votes. eom

[relayerbob]

15. Yawn

[underthematrix]

16. This makes me very happy.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

17. Excellent!

[ChubbyStar]

42. Hores race call: The favorite Biden stumbled at the gate and missed the break

Shuffled back to the rear of the pack, he attempted to make a charge but drifted far right and look dirt to the face, following that set back, it looks like at the eighth pole Biden just doesn't have the stuff to win today, it looks to be a tight race heading towards the wire, but Biden just ran out of gas.

[LanternWaste]

18. Thank goodness Bernie's dead-set against dark money. He stands apart.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

31. Except for his Our Revolution PAC, of course.

But that's different, right?

[OliverQ]

19. Disgusting. Is he going to fill his Cabinet with Goldman Sachs Execs too?

[oasis]

27. It won't be inept lefty revolutionaries. That's for damn sure.

[ChubbyStar]

39. The only cabinet Joe is filling is in his kitchen

He. Is. Done.

[oasis]

43. We're headed to NV this weekend to help the Biden team get the

word out. We'll be knocking on doors and making calls well into next week.

I guarantee Biden will bag a hefty share of Nevada's delegates before going into South Carolina.

[OhZone]

41. Exactly!

[Peacetrain]

20. Good.. he needs the money

[musicman65]

28. People should

wake up to see this is the only way to stay in,,sad but true,,we have His Six

[highplainsdem]

22. Good for Joe!

[oasis]

25. Go for it Joe! Full Steam Ahead.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. Good. I hope they contribute their maximum $2800.

[progressoid]

33. That's a bunch of MALARKEY!

[Renew Deal]

34. Makes sense

He's desperate for $$$

[BlueIdaho]

36. 250 attendees x $2,800 - $700,000.

That’s chicken feed...

Did I get that wrong?

[brooklynite]

40. Yes, I was invited...

...they can donate the same $2800 I can.

Should I contribute to offset their influence?

(actually I'm meeting with Stacey Abrams tonight)

[dware]

45. Ok........and?

What's your point?

[wyldwolf]

46. these types of posts don't have the effect they used to, do they?

Remember back in the day when you could call a moderate a 'corporate whore,' or 'a shill for wall street" and DU would go fall all over themselves to 'rec' the post? LOL. Good times.