Sanders Campaign Calls on Biden--and All 2020 Democrats--to Reject Any Help From Shadowy Super PACs [View all]

[Uncle Joe]

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"Let's be clear," Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir said in a statement Thursday, "super PACs exist for one reason and one reason only: to help billionaires and corporations bankroll a presidential campaign with unlimited amounts of money, in exchange for favors."

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More than $14 million of the $37.6 million Biden collected from individual contributors through the end of September came from donors who gave $2,800 or more to his bid for his party's presidential nomination, according to a tally provided to CNN by the nonpartisan Campaign Finance Institute, which examines money in politics.

By comparison, just 3% and 5% of the money raised by his Sanders and Warren, respectively, came from donors who donated at least $2,800—the maximum an individual can donate to a candidate for a primary election.

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"Joe Biden has spent his campaign promising elite donors that nothing will fundamentally change for them, and he has made clear to fossil fuel and pharmaceutical donors that he will be their ally," said Shakir. "As a result, he has had trouble generating significant grassroots support from Americans who are getting crushed by those same big donors—and so his supporters are suddenly begging for help from super PACs, even though they are vehicles for the kind of corporate corruption that Democrats should be fighting to stop."

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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/24/sanders-campaign-calls-biden-and-all-2020-democrats-reject-any-help-shadowy-super#