Far left Democrats Are Failing In Their Districts, Abysmal Polling And Almost No Top Donors
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🗓️ 14 August 2019
⏱️ 85 minutes
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NOTE: Yes I noticed The Gaffe saying Beto was running for Congress and I do correct that in the video.
Far left Democrats Are Failing In Their Districts, Abysmal Polling And Almost No Top Donors. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has raised an absurdly small amount of top donations from inside her district. According to the Daily Caller only 10 of her top donors, meaning over $200, came from inside her district.
Her total in district top donations is only 1.4% of the national average. Similar results can be seen for the other far left democrats known as the squad who raised between 2-4% with Ayana Pressley standing out with 30% (though she is far less famous according to polls)
The percentage is less relevant than the reality though. Far Left Democrats and even other high profile politicians are being propped up by people outside of their jurisdiction.
Beto O'Rourke received tons of support from media and celebrities
and according to McClatchyDC Stacey Abrams received 62% of her top donors from outside of Georgia.
Why does it make sense for people outside of Georgia to fund a democratic governor? The governor represents the state not people outside of it.
I don't care if youre conservative, republican, liberal, or democrat to me it makes no sense for people in other localities interfering in elections that won't impact them for the most part.
I understand a democratic governor can have an impact on other states but the point is that our representatives should be working for us not external donors.
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| 0:00.0 | I believe we have a serious problem in this country with outside influence on local elections. |
| 0:05.4 | If I am going to have someone represent me, in my opinion at least it makes no sense that |
| 0:11.8 | people from outside of my district would be funding that person. |
| 0:15.8 | Case in point, Beto O'Rourke and Stacey Abrams. |
| 0:19.3 | They both received a ton of money from outside of their constituency. |
| 0:24.0 | Now I understand Beto O'Rourke, you know he was running for Congress, which means he would |
| 0:27.7 | be in a federal position, which could have an impact on the whole country, but he's supposed |
| 0:32.4 | to be representing one district in Texas. |
| 0:35.6 | Yet he received a ton of support from out of state. |
| 0:38.1 | Stacey Abrams on the other hand was going to be a governor. |
| 0:41.6 | She's literally just representing the state of Georgia and those who live within it. |
| 0:46.8 | Why then did she receive so much money, at least according to one report, 62% of her donations |
| 0:52.6 | from outside of Georgia? She was not being represented or empowered by the people in her own state. |
| 0:59.8 | I've got some data and it's pretty alarming, at least from the way I see things. |
| 1:04.1 | Maybe I'm missing something. But even if you're going to be a congressperson, why should you |
| 1:09.9 | receive funding and support from people you will not impact? I think that's very worrisome. |
| 1:16.5 | Now to our lead story. |
| 1:18.4 | Ocasio Cortez's known donors from her own district are nearly nonexistent FEC records show. |
| 1:26.4 | According to the Daily Caller, only 10 people who live in Ocasio Cortez's district have been |
| 1:33.2 | recorded making donations to her reelection campaign in 2019. |
| 1:37.2 | That's 1.4% of the average for congressional reelection campaigns. Let me stress that one more time. |
| 1:45.5 | According to this story from the Daily Caller, Ocasio Cortez's constituent donors are 1.4% |
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