2nd quarter fundraising megathread

[Adam Griffin]

Yeah, I'm so sick of this "x% of our donations were less than $100 - we're a real grassroots movement!" nonsense. Literally every campaign over the past four years has done this. It's a gimmick.

I was sitting here trying to calculate it before I saw jfern's image; the issue is the 50k. There's no doubt that if Bernie has exceeded 100k contributors, then so has Hillary - grassroots or not. He may have more passion behind him but Hillary has several times the numbers of supporters nationally at the moment.

Of the "over $100", a lot of those are going to be maxed out.

I'm assuming 150k contributors overall and an average sub-$100 donation of $50.

135,000 people @ $50/each = $6,750,000
15,000 people @ $2550/each = $38,250,000

85% of her money comes from big donors.

[mvd10]

Any guesses on how much Bush will raise in his first quarter? I keep reading the 100 million, but that was when he wasn't officially running and could take unlimited sums, while Clinton's 45 million was made when she was officially running and could only take 3000 or so.

[Tender Branson]

Sanders raised 15 Mio. $:

Bernie Sanders Raises $15 Million From a Wide Donor Base

Senator Bernie Sanders, the liberal Vermont senator who has been rising in recent polls in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, raised $15 million in the last two months, his aides said.

The sum represents a third of what Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign reported raising by going after high-dollar donors. Instead, Mr. Sanders appealed largely to grassroots donors who could give smaller amounts to finance his candidacy.

The figure is surprisingly large for a fund-raising effort that has been primarily from small donors. And it will allow Mr. Sanders to air ads introducing himself to voters, as well hire staff that could help him maintain his candidacy.

Aides to Mr. Sanders said that since April 30, nearly 400,000 contributions had come into the campaign, with 99 percent of those donations in increments of $250 or less.

The disclosure of his fund-raising prowess comes as he has shown continued strength in polls in early nominating states, getting the support of 33 percent of likely caucusgoers in Iowa in one new poll and narrowing what was once a wide gap with Mrs. Clinton, who had 52 percent support.

On Wednesday evening, Mr. Sanders drew a crowd of roughly 10,000 at a speech in Madison, Wis., a Democratic stronghold.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/07/02/bernie-sanders-raises-15-million-from-a-wide-donor-base

[Nyvin]

Something isn't adding up right here. The maximum donation to a primary campaign is $2700.

I thought they didn't release the total number of donors

[Adam Griffin]

Something isn't adding up right here. The maximum donation to a primary campaign is $2700.

I thought they didn't release the total number of donors

They didn't - the guy is guessing (horribly).

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Sanders has $15M from 250,000 donors. Obviously Clinton must have had more than 50,000 donors.

[Mr. Morden]

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-07-05/ted-cruz-raised-10-million-in-second-quarter-campaign-says

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[RogueBeaver]

Walker has raised nearly $30M.

[Mr. Morden]

Walker has raised nearly $30M.

But he only has a testing the waters committee at this point, doesn't he?  I don't actually remember what the fundraising limits are on that.  It's not the same as a formal campaign or an exploratory committee.

[mds32]

Scott Walker raised $30 Million in a crowded GOP Field.

Clinton raised $45 Million with only Sen. Sanders as her opposition....

[Mehmentum]

Scott Walker raised $30 Million in a crowded GOP Field.

Clinton raised $45 Million with only Sen. Sanders as her opposition....

Clinton's total doesn't include 20 million that her Super PACs pulled in.  I'm not sure what limits Walker's testing the waters commitee has, but its comparing apples and oranges.

[mds32]

Scott Walker raised $30 Million in a crowded GOP Field.

Clinton raised $45 Million with only Sen. Sanders as her opposition....

Clinton's total doesn't include 20 million that her Super PACs pulled in.  I'm not sure what limits Walker's testing the waters commitee has, but its comparing apples and oranges.

It tells me then that Clinton raised $65 million in total while facing token opposition. While Walker who hasn't even gotten in the race yet and has only one committee and no superpac raised $30 Million and has many other competitors in the primary who are taking a lot of the donors.

That tells me that Clinton's numbers are not that strong at all and in effect truly shows the GOP is prepared once this primary is settled to throw plenty of money into the General Election (unless the candidate is a complete goof).

[Mehmentum]

Scott Walker raised $30 Million in a crowded GOP Field.

Clinton raised $45 Million with only Sen. Sanders as her opposition....

Clinton's total doesn't include 20 million that her Super PACs pulled in.  I'm not sure what limits Walker's testing the waters commitee has, but its comparing apples and oranges.

It tells me then that Clinton raised $65 million in total while facing token opposition. While Walker who hasn't even gotten in the race yet and has only one committee and no superpac raised $30 Million and has many other competitors in the primary who are taking a lot of the donors.

That tells me that Clinton's numbers are not that strong at all and in effect truly shows the GOP is prepared once this primary is settled to throw plenty of money into the General Election (unless the candidate is a complete goof).

The fact that she's facing token opposition would depress her fundraising, not increase it.  If she's just going to coast to the nomination, not many people are going to feel the need to donate to her because she's going to win anyway.

Her numbers are basically identical to Obama's 2012 fundraising numbers, which tells me she won't have any trouble with money.

[bedstuy]

Walker has raised nearly $30M.

That refers to his SuperPAC? 

I'm confused about the rules here.  Can you raise money for your campaign proper without filing with the FEC?

[King]

IIRC what Jeb basically did, Walker is running his SuperPAC as a noncandidate at the moment, then will resign it and start his own campaign upon entering.

That tells me that Clinton's numbers are not that strong at all and in effect truly shows the GOP is prepared once this primary is settled to throw plenty of money into the General Election (unless the candidate is a complete goof).

Yea no, Clinton is probably going to raise $1.5 billion in campaign + PAC. Money is the absolute least of the worries for her.

[All Along The Watchtower]

I thought the evil neo-librul Clintons  had tons of Wall Street connections. Doesn't that kinda go against the notion that Hilldawg will struggle to raise money? lol

[Tender Branson]

Walker has raised nearly $30M.

That refers to his SuperPAC?  

I'm confused about the rules here.  Can you raise money for your campaign proper without filing with the FEC?

Definitely his SuperPAC numbers.

There are no official campaign numbers for quarter 2, because Walker has only registered his campaign recently, which means his first official campaign quarter will be Q3 (which the FEC will report in Mid-October).

[Mr. Morden]

Fiorina's numbers:

http://www.nationaljournal.com/2016-elections/carly-fiorina-raises-meager-1-4-million-in-two-months-20150706

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[Mr. Morden]

Also, her Super PAC raised $3.4 million:

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/carly-fiorina-2016-fundraising-119783.html

[Bakersfield Uber Alles]

I'm eagerly awaiting O'Malley's and Chafee's numbers. I'm guessing that they're under $1 million each.

[RogueBeaver]

Jeb's Super PAC raised $110M. Official campaign $11M.

[Tender Branson]

Jeb's Super PAC raised $110M. Official campaign $11M.

Certainly helps if you are from a family of 2 Presidents, with close ties to the weapons- and other mass killing industry that Old Bush and moron-Bush helped to achieve record profits.

[Mehmentum]

Clinton - 45M + 24M = 69M Total
Sanders - 15M

Jeb Bush - 11M + 110M = 121M Total
Ted Cruz - 10M + 35M = 45M Total
Walker - 30M
Carson - 8.3M
Fiorina - 1.4M + 3.5M = 4.9M Total

[Mr. Morden]

The $100 million+ number raised by Bush's Super PAC is for the first six months of the year, not the second quarter:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeb-bush-super-pac-raises-more-than-100-million-in-6-months/

So are you comparing apples to apples when you compare that fundraising haul to the other figures?  Is the $24 million for Clinton's Super PACs, for example, just for Q2 or the whole year so far?

[Mr. Morden]

Average dollars raised per day (by the campaigns, not the Super PACs):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/07/07/guess-which-presidential-candidate-has-been-raising-more-than-half-a-million-a-day/

Bush $760k
Clinton $570k
Sanders $242k
Cruz $142k
Carson $87k
Fiorina $24k

Of course, there tends to be a big rush of fundraising in the days following the announcement.  Since Bush announced so late in the quarter, that helps explain his high $/day figure.