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Egnever

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6. These guys can't even do a campaign fundraiser without lying.
Wed Jun 22, 2016, 10:49 PM
Jun 2016
"Yesterday my father sent his first ever fundraising email for the campaign and predicted it would shatter fundraising records," the missive read. "Once again, my father was right. Yesterday's email was a massive success. My father offered to match up to $2 million personally, $1 for every $1 donated, and in less than 12 hours we surpassed that goal. All because of supporters like you."


Except it has been beaten many times. In fact really recently.

On February 10, 2016 the Bernie Sanders campaign had raised $6.4 to $6.5 million in the previous 24 hours. At an average of $34/contributor there were about 190,000 donors. In one 15 minute period the campaign processed 26,000 donations


Hell Ron Paul kicked his ass


in 2007, during the campaign of American presidential candidate Ron Paul The fundraising drive raised over $4.2 million in one day, making it at that time the largest one-day Internet political fundraiser ever


Cheeto Jesus wasn't even close to breaking records.

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