Sanders outspent Biden by a lot and other key takeaways from the 2020 presidential campaign filings

[George II]

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN, Updated 8:22 PM ET, Sat March 21, 2020

(CNN)Michael Bloomberg invested almost $1 billion into his short-lived presidential campaign. A single Silicon Valley donor fueled a super PAC that tried to rescue Sen. Elizabeth Warren's bid for the Democratic nomination. Small-dollar donors warmed to former Vice President Joe Biden.

And President Donald Trump and his allies continued to build a massive war chest for the general election.

Biden raised more than $18 million in February -- twice the amount his campaign had collected the previous month, and the former vice president entered March with a little more than $12 million remaining in his campaign account.

And that was before his sweep of victories coast to coast this month solidified his political comeback. During the CNN-Univision debate earlier this week, Biden indicated that his campaign already had brought in $33 million in the first two weeks of March.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/21/politics/february-fec-filings-2020-presidential-campaign/index.html

[NCProgressive]

1. Sanders had hundreds of offices plus

thousands of employees and hundreds of thousands of volunteers (supposedly.)

He outspent Biden 20:1 on ad placements.

All for naught.

Biden won states where he didn't have a single office or a single employee or a single ad running.

Moral of the story: Sanders' policies and message stunk so badly that voters rejected it wholesale.

[George II]

3. My favorite fun fact is that he claimed he had 25,000 "volunteers" in Iowa....

....months before the caucus. He wound up getting 43,581 votes. That calculates to 1.7 votes per "volunteer". Estimating they were there for three months (a conservative estimate), that's about a half a vote per volunteer per month.

[NCProgressive]

4. Actually, you have to subtract the volunteers from the votes first

because they were already going to vote for Bernie.

So in 3 months, each volunteer got 0.7 additional people to vote for Bernie. Hope they are not in the sales field where such numbers would result in immediate firing.

[Cha]

8. I remember reading that "25,000 Volunteer" info..

I was thinking "Wow"! And, then it turns out Pete actually won Iowa by one delegate!

And, then when you put it in perspective by how many votes he got.. it does seem incredulous.

[George II]

11. Not to correct you, but he won by two delegates. And then he went on and tied.....

.....New Hampshire, Sanders' neighboring state.

[Cha]

18. Oh sorry! I forgot.. please do

correct me.. Thank you! And, tied NH.. wow.. that should have been a big red flag right there.

[George II]

19. After the first two states voted, Buttigieg was up 1.5-0.5, and after Nevada...

....it was Buttigieg 1.5, Sanders 1.5.

From that point on Biden was in charge!!

[Cha]

20. lol.. they just didn't know

it Yet.

Biden/Us/USA/Planet.. Lucky Guys!

[William769]

2. Just goes to show that Joe is the better man.

[George II]

5. As people sarcastically like to say....

"but you already knew that"!

[William769]

7. That goes without saying.

[Cha]

9. I tell them they're..

in no position to tell me what I know.

[George II]

10. Bazinga!

[Cha]

14. lol

[Gothmog]

17. The latest Federal Election Commission disclosures reveal just how badly Joe Biden was outspent

Link to tweet

[empedocles]

6. With each new info piece, BS increasingly resembles - trump

[Cha]

12. Can you believe this?!

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders raised a massive sum in February -- more than $47 million, according to his campaign's filing Friday with the Federal Election Commission.

And he spent nearly as much: Burning through $45 million -- or more than three times the $13.1 million spent by Biden's camp in February

It Boggles my freaking mind!

What's To "ASSESS"?..

Despite the heavy spending, Sanders entered March with a substantial financial cushion of nearly $18.7 million in leftover cash, his filings show.

Sanders said this week he still was assessing the state of his campaign after the string of Biden victories had effectively closed his path to the Democratic presidential nomination.

Thank you for the article, George.. somebody had to do a write on this phenomenal difference in the cash flow.. and who WON sometimes with spending No Money!

[showblue22]

15. I think he's trying to figure out a way of asking for donations without looking like

a chiseler. It seems to me, they're trying to thread that needle. I wonder if the campaign gets to keep any of the money that went to donations? An administration free or anything?

[showblue22]

13. I keep hearing how Bernie won 3 states in a row.

Pete won Iowa, NH was a tie and NV was a caucus where only 4% of registered voters voted. Whoever on his team thought this was a strong showing was sorely mistaken or trying to save their own asses from being fired. How could they be so confident with such poor results after spending so much money?

[Gothmog]

16. sanders outspent Joe 3 to 1

Link to tweet

[Cha]

21. Thank you, Goth!

[tritsofme]

22. Sanders and his big money campaign couldn't stop humble Joe!