Presidential campaigns are resorting to unusual tactics to qualify for the Democratic debate stage thanks to the new donor threshold
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand sank a ping-pong ball into a cup of water — a spin on the drinking game, beer pong — and turned the moment into a digital ad urging $1 donations to her presidential campaign. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is hawking bumper stickers for $1 donations and used his recent CNN town hall to make a televised plea for more campaign contributions. Former Rep.
“The days of just financing [a campaign] in Iowa and New Hampshire are gone, especially in a 22-person field,” said former DNC Chairman Howard Dean, whose 2004 presidential campaign was a pioneer in online small-dollar fundraising. “I’d say to those candidates that haven’t passed the threshold, get to work.”Sign Up
John Davis, a senior adviser to Delaney’s long-shot campaign, said that when the DNC requirements were released, “we adjusted our plan.” “It’s going to cause candidates to concentrate on fundraising as opposed to hiring staff and traveling to important primary states,” said former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 and called the DNC’s rules “troubling.” “It clearly advantages those candidates that announced early on or those candidates that already had fundraising bases.”
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