Brooks and Capehart on Biden's record fundraiser and the importance of campaign spending
PBS News Hour - Brooks and Capehart
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🗓️ 29 March 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:20.0 | slash everywhere. A campaign fundraiser nets Biden millions and a stock market debut could potentially net Trump billions. |
| 0:29.0 | On that and the other political stories shaping the week we turn to the analysis of Brooks and |
| 0:34.6 | Kapart. |
| 0:35.6 | That is New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Kapart, associate editor for |
| 0:40.5 | the Washington Post. |
| 0:41.5 | Gentlemen, so nice to see you. |
| 0:43.0 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:45.0 | Let's talk about this money race that is going on. |
| 0:48.0 | Biden had last night this event in New York City, a Radio City Music Hall, |
| 0:52.0 | apparently the most lucrative fundraising event |
| 0:55.6 | in American political history, $25 million I believe it was, former presidents out there |
| 1:00.4 | celebrating him. Does this money matter, especially when you're running |
| 1:05.6 | against the master of free media, Donald Trump, does it really matter? |
| 1:09.1 | No, I don't know those people wasted 25 million dollars. |
| 1:12.5 | Money matters in politics if you have no name recognition. |
| 1:15.1 | You want to get known, if you want to have an organization. |
| 1:17.4 | But once you hit a certain threshold, |
| 1:19.8 | even in a well-funded Senate race, it doesn't matter. |
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