Report: Donors Ask About Refund If Biden Doesn’t Run

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Report: Donors Ask About Refund If Biden Doesn’t Run

Wendell Husebø 2 Jul 2024

Democrat donors reportedly worry their money in support of President Joe Biden is going down the drain, according to Reuters, Axios, and New York Times reports on donor conversations with the Biden campaign.

The donors’ fear seems to underscore their deep doubts about Biden’s political viability after his terrible debate performance and subsequent almost five-minute speech Monday when he took no questions and his face appeared orange.

The Biden campaign’s National Finance Committee held calls with donors in recent days, four donors on a Monday call told Axios:

    “It was a damage control call,” one participant said.
    “I don’t know what the pathway forward is, and I think they are trying to figure that out, too,” another donor told Axios. “We all saw what we saw.”

The campaign fielded numerous “pointed” questions about Biden’s ability to make it to the November election. One asked, “Can the president make it through a campaign and another term?” a source told Reuters about a second Sunday call with donors.

The call on Sunday, which took about 40 minutes, turned intense after a donor asked Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez if Biden was willing to offer a refund if he dropped out of the race, a source familiar with the call told Reuters.
“Some of us on that call have privately discussed if we should put our money somewhere else,” one donor reportedly said. “The past few days have been very disappointing.”

The Biden campaign, however, tried to claim that polling does not show Biden should drop out of the race.

But 41 percent of Democrat voters want Biden to drop out of the race, a Monday USA Today/Suffolk University poll found, while only 51 percent want him to remain on the ticket.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/02/report-donors-ask-refund-if-biden-doesnt-run/

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Biden campaign projects fundraising strength amid calls for him to step down
By
Naomi Lim
July 2, 2024 10:28 am
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President Joe Biden‘s campaign is underscoring how he raised $264 million from April through June, despite a debate performance that rattled the Democratic Party and resulted in calls for him to step aside as its 2024 nominee.

Biden raising $127 million in June alone, the campaign’s best fundraising month of the election cycle and its best grassroots fundraising month to date, means he and Vice President Kamala Harris have $240 million cash on hand. Former President Donald Trump has not disclosed his second quarter fundraising numbers, but had $116.6 million in the bank at the end of May.

Biden’s fundraising and difficulties in transferring the money he and Harris have already raised to a potential replacement is one argument his campaign is making as it seeks to downplay the calls before next month’s Democratic convention and four months before the election.

In a fundraising email with the subject line “7 Things To Tell Your Friends After The Debate,” Biden deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty contended the “bedwetting brigade” calling for the president’s replacement is “the best possible way” for Trump “to win and us to lose.”

“Joe Biden is going to be the Democratic nominee,” Flaherty wrote. “Voters voted. He won overwhelmingly. And if he were to drop out, it would lead to weeks of chaos, internal foodfighting, and a bunch of candidates who limp into a brutal floor fight at the convention, all while Donald Trump has time to speak to American voters uncontested.”

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/3067009/biden-campaign-projects-fundraising-strength-debate-disaster/

[Smokin Joe]

Suppose they guy you bribed to do stuff for you didn't even run? 

Sucks to be them...

[rustynail]

Refunds?  Send in the next payment, now!

[deb]

Sorry, but democrats losing their money makes me smile just a little bit.