Slate: Hillary Clinton Has a Lot to Worry About Right Now

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Slate: Hillary Clinton Has a Lot to Worry About Right Now

By Josh Voorhees

Hillary Clinton’s campaign continues to fight the past (her private email account) and the future (a potential Joe Biden run), but the latest quarterly fundraising deadline brought a reminder that she shouldn’t forget about the present: Bernie Sanders.

The Vermont senator on Thursday reported raising roughly $26 million—$2 million of which came in the final day—during the past three months. That total was only $2 million less than the $28 million haul that Clinton’s camp reported bringing in over the same period.

According to his team, Sanders has now received more than 1.3 million donations from roughly 650,000 different individuals since joining the presidential race. That, according to the Washington Post, means Sanders crossed the 1 million contributions mark faster than Barack Obama did in either of his campaigns.

... Sanders’ surprising quarter will cause plenty of anxiety inside Hillary-land, and raise plenty of questions outside of it. A major part the argument the Clinton-backing Democratic establishment used to dismiss Bernie at the start of this year was the belief that he wouldn’t be able to raise the kind of money needed to compete in the general election. That argument won’t disappear after one strong quarter, but it certainly looks a whole lot weaker now that we know Sanders went nearly dollar for dollar with the Democratic front-runner this past summer. Making that familiar Beltway logic even more awkward for Hillary: Obama managed to do something similar in the summer of 2007 on his way to besting Clinton for the 2008 nomination.

Clinton’s camp will brush off its drop in fundraising as the result of the dog days of summer, but it’s also clear that it doesn’t want to talk about one likely contributing factor: Joe Biden and the constant chatter about his late entry into the Democratic field.

Hillary, then, is stuck campaigning on multiple fronts: past, present, and future. Bernie, meanwhile, can keep forging straight ahead.

[roguevalley]

1. agreed. if she isn't worried then she needs to be. those who refuse to learn from history are

doomed to repeat it.

[BlueWaveDem]

2. Another "thinkpiece".

How much more did Hil raise on her final day? Oh the article didn't provide that info? I see it didn't mention she broke the Q2 fund raising record either. Hmm...