An enormous whopper is being told by much of the media this weekend. It appears to be strategic and according to screen grabs of Open Secrets your humble correspondent has the receipts.
All eyes were on Los Angeles Saturday night where the bragging point was supposed to be that President Biden was due to rake in (excited inhale here) $28 million. (Think Dr. Evil in the wrong time period.) Democrats were going to do this because the menace that supposedly is Donald J. Trump is about to turn the entire nation into some sort of concentration camp.
(Aside: Honestly I just can’t with these clowns anymore. Rachel Maddow, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez Liz Cheney and Keith Olbermann running around crying about being put in camps isn’t true. And if any of them deserve prison then telling us that he would lock you up makes some of us even more motivated to get him in there.)
But the girl-drama tactics of Adam Kinzinger aside, the legacy media is trying to pound home a drumbeat that even though his polling is in the tank, his policies are the worst in the modern era, and he still stumble-trundles around important world leaders, despite it all he’s going to win in November. And how do they know? Because of his fundraising… “prowess.”
In just one night in Manhattan (when President Trump was comforting a grieving NYPD widow) Joe Biden raised (insert excited inhale again) $27 million.
This weekend the goal was $28 million, but as of the writing of this column the exact amount has only been moderately mentioned with very soft specifics on the exact amount.
But even if he hit the goal, he’s not outpacing Trump in funding. Never mind that to get to the “$28 million” he needed Clooney, Kimmel, Roberts, and Obama to all show-up and say inspiring things while he stared into space wondering where the “nice lady” from Italy had gone.
As the media projects this “incredibly successful” funding effort, they write poetically about how much Biden has raised and how little he’s spent.
But Biden has actually raised less, spent more, and seems to have difficulty raising anything if Obama, DeNiro, Clooney, and company don't come to his rescue.
The look on his face at the White House Juneteenth party said it all, “Is my diaper on straight?”
The facts are that Trump set the record for the largest single-night haul in the history of politics this year when he raised over $50 million in one night. When he attended a fundraiser in a blue state and the goal was $5 million, he hauled in. $12 million. Following the sham verdict in New York, his fundraising website broke the internet twice—and he raised more than $140 million much of it from small donors who can give a couple more times each just in the next five months.
In terms of PAC and Super PACS, he’s also absolutely throttling Biden. All added up here’s what it looks like with all campaign and PAC money counted: Joe Biden - $306,014,641.00
Donald J. Trump - $336,640,767
And while Biden was hobnobbing with the pretty and popular, President Trump spent part of his day at a church in Detroit, listening and pledging to do his best on the issues plaguing the inner city. His “platinum plan” seems to be the hit of the day which would incentivize growth and development. The pastor at said church remarked in return at how humbled he was to have Trump come and speak with them when Obama and Biden had promised so many times… but Trump kept his word.
Ultimately the money will be far less relevant than the policies and the nation’s memory of the economy pre-COVID, vs the economy post-COVID. The lack of foreign wars and refusal to send money to countries disloyal to us versus funding the people who want to kill us and our allies.
Ultimately it will come down to who can lead us into the next challenging time.
And my best bet is that the wandering wayfarer will appear to be feeble to topple the America First Warrior - no matter how much money he has on hand.
