Moderate Dem campaigns are expensive in that they need big money donors to convince voters to hold their noses.
Progressive Dem campaigns are essentially free because the voters themselves are donating the bulk of the money.
The same efforts spent to get voters, naturally gets donors.
I don't think people realize how much time and effort Biden and the DNC put into getting these big fundraisers with George Clooney when it's a completely unnecessary step.
It shouldn't take 2 billion dollars to get more votes than trump, but that's what its been projected to cost to get Biden back in the White House. And that was before America saw him at the debate...
If the DNC is doing things behind the scenes, it's probably to re-route the big incoming dark money push to make sure it'll still land on a party favorite.
Last election it was 64 million in a single donation that no one knows where it came from...
Yet in the summer of 2020, when a blandly named entity called the Impetus Fund received a $64 million donation from a single anonymous source, it touched off a guessing game with broad political implications.
That single anonymous donation, routed through a series of accounts, eventually would be used to help Joe Biden defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election. Critics say it has come to illustrate an increasingly opaque system of funding elections that in 2024 could reach a scale that dwarfs all previous election cycles.