How Fundraising For A Presidential Campaign Really Works Ft. Marisa Kabas

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Amanda is joined by Marisa Kabas to talk about fundraising in the presidential election and how campaigns really use our money. They start with an explanation of corporate fundraising, as well as the approach some candidates are taking to focus on small donations. Next, they talk about the Citizens United ruling and how it continues to influence our political system. They discuss the prospects of dark horse candidates like Pete Buttigieg and Julian Castro. They also tell us how fundraising has changed in the internet era. Then they close out the show with a conversation about how to get the best return on your money if you only have a limited amount to donate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Betches Media presents.
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0:13.0	America!
0:16.0	Hello everybody welcome back to the betches sup
0:18.0	podcast the news explained by your two funniest friends but today it's just me.
0:21.0	I'm Amanda Dummerman the the subs content editor I'm here with
0:24.6	Marissa Cabis a freelance writer and political commentator how's it going Marissa
0:29.1	it's going well I mean you know as well as it could be in these times of ours.
0:33.2	Exactly yeah. So today we're talking about fundraising I wanted to talk to somebody
0:38.3	about this because especially lately we've been hearing more about like
0:42.0	Q2 fundraising and I consider myself like pretty
0:45.8	tuned in and aware I like when I see a headline I tend to sort of know like what
0:49.4	the implications are but fundraising and money when it comes to campaigns is kind of like a blind spot and I don't really know how it sort of should color my thinking about how the race is going, what do these things actually tell us, what do they mean, do they have like any meaningful impact at this stage
1:05.8	does that change as we get deeper into the race so we just want to sort of talk to you
1:10.6	about what these things mean so every every quarter, we hear about which candidates
1:14.7	have raised the most money for their 2020 elections.
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