If Biden is Polling So Poorly, Why Is He Raising So Much Money?

The RNC may be broke, and Biden is outraising them by 100%

MartinEdic
4 min readFeb 21, 2024
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Anyone who reads my opinions knows that I take poll results with a huge grain of salt, and I may not be alone. The ability to raise money is a direct indicator of sentiment in elections and Biden is knocking it out of the park.

These are not tiny donors, they are the big guys who don’t throw their money after losers. Given that his opponent is not only a loser but also spending huge amounts of election money on personal legal bills, I wonder if Republican donors are waiting and watching.

As the courts chip away at Trump, seemingly daily, my guess is the major donors on the right are watching how public support responds to those court decisions, especially the upcoming criminal trials. John Kasich, a Republican Trump defeated in 2016, is now claiming he is hearing that evangelicals are starting to question their loyalty to him.

They were willing to look away from his distinctively non-Biblical lifestyle as long as it promised to end Roe v Wade and suppress abortion. Many conservative religious voters are one issue voters and abortion is that issue. Now that they have their court decision, what other Trump policies can be explained away to a morally driven audience?

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MartinEdic

Mastodon: @martinedic@md.dm, Writer, nine non-fiction books, two novels, Buddhist, train lover. Amateur cook, lover of life most of the time!