Biden campaign calls Trump ‘Broke Don’ after he lags in fundraising

President Biden’s reelection campaign is pouncing on former President Trump’s fundraising numbers, dubbing its political rival “Broke Don” on Thursday.

“Not a Winning Campaign: Broke Don Hides in Basement,” the campaign wrote in an email. “Trump can’t raise money, isn’t campaigning, and is letting convicts and conspiracy theorists run his campaign.”

Election filings made public Wednesday showed Trump’s 2024 campaign brought in $10.9 million last month, while his joint fundraising committee raised nearly $11 million. It has about $42 million in cash on hand.

Meanwhile, Biden’s campaign operation raised roughly $53 million in February, which gave it $155 million in cash on hand entering March.

Heikki,

I hope broke don sleeps well on his cock shaped pillow

Hazzia,

Lumpy cock-shaped MyPillow

Dagwood222,

Don’t let Trump’s bad news stop you from working for Biden.

Biden needs a super majority in Congress to undo decades of GOP rule.

nomous,

The Democratic party needs a supermajority for years (decades) if the actual left wing wants to have any voice in U.S. politics.

The GOP needs to go away, the Republican party is a party of failed policies. The only thing that needs to be conserved is the planet and peoples health and they’re failing miserably at both.

verdantbanana,
@verdantbanana@lemmy.world avatar

both Trump and Biden should do the right thing and step aside

Biden is using the fall of Roe v. Wade to raise funds and he signed some executive order on women’s health research or something that amounts to very little when he could have used the same amount of energy and paper restoring women’s rights

Trump did nothing to advance the country forward and is fund raising on extreme far right comments such as christian ideologies

not allowed to vote but if was allowed to definitely would not vote for either corporate owned party

ChonkyOwlbear,

Abortion rights can’t be changed by order of the president. It takes an act of Congress or The Supreme Court. Biden did what he could by allowing abortion pills to be sold by mail across state lines.

exanime,

Biden is far from perfect and the people of the USA do deserve better choices… But to pretend Biden is anywhere near the vicinity of bad as Donal Trump is simply veiled simping for Trump

Dagwood222,

GOP speaking when they are ahead. “We’re ahead because we are smarter and more moral than the idiot Leftists.”

GOP speaking when they are behind. “Both sides are the same.”

MagicShel,

Maybe Taylor Swift can explain it better: We are never ever ever getting different nominees.

These are the candidates. The end. And I would vote for a moldy cumsock if the alternative is Trump. But Biden has done surprisingly well given the hand (Congress and the supreme court) he was dealt. We could do so much worse.

OhStopYellingAtMe,
@OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world avatar

Hmm. I’m interested in getting more info on this Moldy Cumsock candidate. What are their positions on abortion as healthcare, housing reform, and immigration reform? Who is their running mate? (I hope it’s Skidmarked Underwear, I’ve heard good things about them)

MagicShel,

Big proponent of debt discharge. Also their infrastructure plan involves large erections. They’ve voted several times for beautifing the landscape. Their health plan encourages lots of pushups. Overall, it’s a platform many people would fall to their knees for.

Late2TheParty,
@Late2TheParty@lemmy.world avatar

Ya know? I thought your previous comment would have beeny favorite one for today, but then you went ahead and whipped out this beautiful piece!

federatingIsTooHard,
@federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world avatar

We are never ever ever getting different nominees.


<span style="color:#323232;">not as long as 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">democrats 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">think that they 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">don't need to
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">they will never ever ever give up power peacefully
</span><span style="color:#323232;">never ever ever
</span><span style="color:#323232;">getting different nominees.
</span>

i’m still workshopping it but i think it’s a worthwhile endeavor. i’m open to more re-writes or suggestions.

grue,

both Trump and Biden should do the right thing and step aside

Yeah, but they won’t and the primaries are effectively over, so making this argument at this point is basically fascist propaganda.

Theprogressivist,
@Theprogressivist@lemmy.world avatar

I remember when I was 14, too. Things aren’t as simple as you want them to be, champ.

Gonkulator, (edited )
@Gonkulator@lemm.ee avatar

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    verdantbanana,
    @verdantbanana@lemmy.world avatar

    actually not on either corporate party’s side

    bipartisan politics took my vote away so do not support either of those two parties

    mozz,
    @mozz@mbin.grits.dev avatar

    actually not on either corporate party's side

    Did you know that Biden's corporate tax reforms at the beginning of 2023, meant that Amazon went from getting a $1.2 billion tax credit to again paying a billion dollars per quarter? And that it's now up to $3 billion per quarter, comfortably more than they've ever had to pay before? And that he's using those corporate tax increases to fund his big-ticket priorities like student loan forgiveness?

    Me neither. I didn't know that shit at all, until a few days ago, when I was arguing with someone like you who was saying how much Biden loves the corporations.

    sailingbythelee,

    I wish you were correct, but you aren’t. The left is famous for its identity politics, which is precisely an in-group/out-group game. Also, the left is just as bad as the right when it comes to lacking nuance and brigading people who express ideas that the hive mind doesn’t like.

    mozz,
    @mozz@mbin.grits.dev avatar

    You're getting hate but you're absolutely right

    I love the left and I don't want Trump to put us all in concentration camps more than anyone else does. But even that being the case, I've been yelled at much more by people on the left for having an "incorrect" opinion than I have from the right.

    • The right will disingenuously repeat talking points and groupthink
    • The left will very sincerely repeat talking points and groupthink, and then call you a racist asshole and get insanely mad at you for daring to question.
    sailingbythelee,

    Thanks, you summed it up nicely. I’m very committed, both personally and professionally, to the left in terms of social policy, but I recognize our tendency towards tribalism, doctrinaire language policing, and groupthink.

    Also, you nailed it when you said that one of main differences between left and right is their degree of earnestness. Anyone who has watched the development of identity politics since the 1990s can recognize that the right is now just doing a bad imitation of the left’s rhetorical tactics. That’s why they seem disingenuous: because most of them are acting out their impression of the so-called “radical left”, but from the other side.

    Whether you agreed with them or not, the right used to pride themselves on being the sober, fiscally conservative, “responsible”, establishment people, while the left were the loud, obnoxious ones screaming about identity and shaming normal people for their supposed “privilege”.

    The rise of the Tea Party marks the beginning of the right-wing adoption of these left-wing identity politics tactics. The right has now become a radical reactionary movement rather than the small-c fiscal conservatives of the past. Watching the nuttiness on the right makes me think that the transformation happened largely because many middle- and working-class whites now see themselves as victims of the same race-based persecution that the left correctly complained about for decades, so they’ve just leaned into it.

    All of this reminds me of Foucault’s assertion that ideologies are not about right and wrong, but rather about power. That’s why we are in the middle of a culture war. Of course, we can’t let the oligarchs, the fascists, or the Christian Nationalists win, but the left is not entirely innocent either in the sense that we have demonized and alienated a very large segment of Western society. I don’t absolve myself, either. I have railed against the right, especially the religious right, in the past just as hard as anyone.

    CharlesDarwin,
    @CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world avatar

    I would say that a very vocal, but hopefully tiny, minority on the left are very much caught up in that. Not all of us are. Unfortunately, in some venues/platforms they have utterly captured the mods, and in some cases, have completely destroyed any reasonable discussion (an example I’ve mentioned before is Boing Boing’s comment section - it’s reached cartoonish levels, and I’ve mostly stopped reading Boing Boing in recent years as a result. It’s almost a self-parody, not even joking.). I think the impression is that there are many more of these types of leftists than there really are.

    iAmTheTot,

    Saying that Trump did nothing to help the country and that he should not run again is being a sycophant?

    5in1k,

    Whatever chief. Both sides are not the same.

    HopeOfTheGunblade,
    @HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social avatar

    Can you explain exactly how Biden could have used "exactly the same amount of energy and paper restoring women's rights"? Be explicit and specific, please.

    verdantbanana,
    @verdantbanana@lemmy.world avatar

    instead putting effort into this

    whitehouse.gov/…/fact-sheet-president-biden-issue…

    he could have just restored what the Supreme Court took away instead of signing executive orders for “more research on the matter”

    go to playbook for democrats - research this problem but never find solutions

    would it not have been the same amount of work and paper signing? or does he just need something to run on and fundraise for?

    Mirshe,

    It doesn’t work that way. The President cannot override a SCOTUS ruling - only Congress passing a law, or the Supreme Court reversing one of their own rulings, can do that.

    HopeOfTheGunblade,
    @HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social avatar

    Restored it how. Give specific, explicit steps. Don't state a goal and then assume that he can set the goal and it happens. There are specific actions he would take to do this. What are they?

    Bipta,

    They absolutely cannot.

    Jaysyn,
    @Jaysyn@kbin.social avatar

    crickets

    Jaysyn,
    @Jaysyn@kbin.social avatar

    You aren't fooling anyone.

    irreticent,
    @irreticent@lemmy.world avatar

    Now that’s not fair… there are some conservatives here that might fall for his propaganda.

    Bipta,

    he could have used the same amount of energy and paper restoring women’s rights

    The president is not a king...

    jordanlund,
    @jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

    There’s no reason for a sitting President to step aside and not run for a second term. Johnson did it in 1968 because, I think, a) he had already served part of JFKs term + his own term and b) he was tired of Vietnam.

    Neither of which is applicable in Biden’s case.

    Second, Biden can’t do anything to restore abortion rights, that is not in his power.

    The Supreme Court struck down the ruling of a previous court, now it’s on the House and Senate to either pass a new law or a new Constitutional Amendment. Neither of which Biden has anything to do with.

    Nudding,

    I would say being eighty years old is a fantastic reason to step aside lmao.

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