With only $9 million on hand ?
The Biden campaign has gotten a wake up call….
His Democratic rival have three times more money and Trump 15 times more….
Sure Joe Biden doesn’t have the identity issues others might have but his ‘burn rate’ seems way more than others…He has more support then other Democrats…But their supporters ARE more enthusiastic …
The campaign will now use the alarm reported in the media to increase it’s fundraising war chest and Biden has indicated that he will take PAC money…
And there are reports that his cash intake is already rising….
Joe Biden HAS been fighting a media headwind, other Democrats and Donald Trump and his head is STILL above water…
Mr. Biden’s team is also urging allies to redouble fund-raising efforts before the calendar turns to 2020 and he has fewer days to devote to the money trail.
And in a confidential memo to top bundlers this week, Mr. Biden’s campaign manager, Greg Schultz, sought to allay growing concerns that Mr. Biden is facing a cash crunch and won’t be able to stay competitive with his rivals on the airwaves and on the ground.
“We will have the resources we need to execute our plan,” Mr. Schultz wrote in the memo, obtained by The New York Times. But he simultaneously exhorted the money-raisers to do more: “We’re asking you to dig deep.”…
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Six months into his candidacy and 100 days until the Iowa caucuses, Mr. Biden is no longer the undisputed Democratic front-runner he once was. He entered the race in April making the case that, as Barack Obama’s vice president and a longtime leader with moderate and liberal views, he stood the best chance of uniting the party, attracting voters across racial, gender and ideological lines and winning over swing voters in battleground states.
While Mr. Biden still leads in many polls, and many voters still express deep appreciation for him, his financial situation — the inability to consolidate traditional big-money donors or inspire a sufficiently large online base of small contributors — has served as a flashing warning sign about the potential limits of his appeal….
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One bright spot is that Mr. Biden’s online donations have picked up of late. His best week for raising money since the second week in the race came in late September as the impeachment scandal exploded. Then, in the first half of October, he raised more online than he had raised in all of September, the campaign said….
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Here’s the link to his campaign donation site….
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