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🗓️ 14 April 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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0:00.0 | You're One of the things we're doing differently in this campaign is we're breaking the |
0:28.4 | system of even how somebody goes about fundraising for a political campaign. I was in a privileged |
0:35.5 | position. I've lived the full arc of the American dream. We've kick-started this |
0:38.8 | campaign with a personal investment significant one that I've made, but this is going to be lifted up not by the donor |
0:45.2 | class, many of whom I even alienated, I would say in Silicon Valley with the positions I've |
0:49.7 | taken over the last week. They've been very clear about that and that's fine. The way we're actually going to get it off the ground is through a bottom-up grassroots uprising and I want to do it in a way that breaks the cartel of professional political fundraisers. |
1:05.0 | So one of the things that I've learned in this process is a lot of people are going to make a lot of money off this presidential election. |
1:13.6 | Actually, more people on the outside |
1:15.2 | are going to make money off of this presidential election |
1:19.0 | than probably any election in human history. Not exaggerating that because there's going to be billions |
1:25.5 | of dollars spent on this election. It's going to be the most money that's ever |
1:29.8 | been spent by candidates on an election. But the way the model works is the consultants who |
1:34.7 | raise money, they get a rake of how much is raised. Generally the number is about 10%. But |
1:39.7 | there's only a small handful of them in the country because they know and have personal relationships |
1:44.9 | with the people who have been historically donors to a Republican presidential primary. |
1:51.5 | Well I think we have an opportunity to break that system. One of the things we're already |
1:54.6 | seen in this campaign is of the small dollar contributions we're getting. We're getting like an |
1:58.9 | off-the-charts percentage. In our case, it's, you know, upwards of 15 maybe more percent that have never donated to the |
2:06.5 | GOP or to a GOP candidate before. That's like way higher than the normal, which is like low single |
2:11.7 | digit percentages. |
2:13.6 | That's just one example of why there's an opportunity here. |
2:16.4 | So one of the things that I want to do is, you know what, I don't want politics to |
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