The Money Race - First Quarter

The Daily DC

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🗓️ 16 April 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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As of midnight last night all of the first quarter 2020 candidates fundraising numbers have been filed with the FEC. CNN Political Director David Chalian looks at what new information can be learned from these numbers and discusses what a candidate's fundraising could suggest about their future in the presidential race.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. I'm David Jalien, the CNN political director, and this is the Daily D.C.
0:07.8	Thanks so much for listening.
0:09.4	Today on the podcast, The Money Race.
0:11.9	We've got those first quarter fundraising numbers from all of the candidates, and it's not just the press releases and their spin about how happy they are with their top line number
0:22.8	or some deep down nugget of small dollar donors they want to plug.
0:29.7	This is the full reports that they are required by law to file with the FEC by midnight last
0:36.6	night.
0:37.3	And they did.
0:38.3	And so now we've been able to dig through and see not just how much they raised.
0:43.7	How much did they spend?
0:45.0	How much of their money are they burning through?
0:46.7	What are they spending it on?
0:48.7	How much is left in the bank going forward?
0:51.7	And what is the ratio of small dollar donors to big dollar donors?
0:56.9	Because we know those small dollar donors, you can keep going back to again and again and again and again.
1:03.2	Those big dollar donors, they're done if they maxed out to you. You got to find a whole new pool
1:07.8	of big dollar donors to keep going along that path. So I do think
1:13.5	you probably know the overall pecking order here in terms of money raised. And this is thanks
1:20.4	to the work of my colleague David Wright, who here at the CNN Political Unit keeps all of these
1:26.8	FEC stats straight for all of us.
1:29.9	Bernie Sanders raised $18 million plus for the quarter.
1:33.5	Kamala Harris, $12 million plus for the quarter.
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