Biden Campaign Releases First 24 Hours Donation Numbers – He Comes Out on Top
Former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign has just released the donation numbers for his first 24 hours as an official candidate: he's beat every other 2020 candidate.
The Biden campaign says it took in $6.3 million in the first 24 hours.
The stats don't disappoint either.
97% of donations were under $200.
Online donations averaged $41.
96,926 people donated.
Pundits are saying the numbers are impressive given the Biden organization did not have the infrastructure in place, especially compared to Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Some quick comparisons of first 24 hours donation numbers (we're adding to this, check back shortly):
Beto O'Rourke: $6.1 million
Bernie Sanders: $5.9 million
Kamala Harris $1.5 million
Amy Klobuchar: $1 million
Elizabeth Warren: Did not officially release
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According to an NBC News report there's yet another mystery swirling around U.S. Rep. George Santos and his campaign financial activity and reports.
WinRed, the right-wing fundraising processor platform created to compete with Democrats' ActBlue, has asked the Santos campaign to correct a financial report that claims the New York GOP lawmaker paid them more than triple what it should have – suggesting the entry on his Federal Election Commission (FEC) report is erroneous.
"Santos reported paying WinRed more than $206,000 to process donations to his 2022 campaign, records show. But that amount doesn't match up with how much money Santos actually raised," NBC News reports.
"WinRed charges candidates a 3.94% fee for contributions made online by credit card. At that rate, Santos would have had to have raised more than $5.2 million through WinRed to warrant a $206,000 payment to the firm," NBC explains. "Through November, however, his campaign reported total contributions of $1.7 million, including donations that didn't come through WinRed."
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WinRed would not tell NBC News how much the Santos campaign actually paid them, with the news network offering that it could be "sloppy accounting."
But one campaign finance expert, attorney Brett Kappel, warns, "nothing that appears on Rep. Santos's FEC reports can be taken at face value."
This follows reports that the Santos campaign amended two filings to indicate that a $500,000 personal loan and a $125,000 personal loan, claimed to have been from the candidate's own personal funds, was not from his personal funds. There is no information indicating what entity loaned the Santos campaign the money, or if it actually even existed.
That bombshell was followed up this week with yet another one: the FEC reports were allegedly signed by a "treasurer" who does not and never has worked for the Santos campaign. One expert called that a "big no-no," and "completely illegal."
Brad Reed – Raw Story
Rep. George Santos (R-NY) isn't the only freshman Republican facing questions about his personal finances.
An investigation conducted by News Channel 5 in Nashville has found that freshman Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) never complied with federal laws requiring that he make disclosures about his personal finances.
In fact, notes News Channel 5, "not only did Andy Ogles ignore that law during the campaign, he continues to ignore it today."
The law in question requires that Ogles and all candidates for elected office to disclose their assets and unearned income, their liabilities, and sources of income paid by one source that exceed $5,000.
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Ogles' office hasn't responded to News Channel 5's questions even though the Tennessee lawmaker's refusal to comply with the law could result in up to a year in prison.
Ogles' defeated Democratic opponent, Heidi Campbell, told News Channel that it was "frustrating" to see Ogles flout the law, which she complied with last year by releasing her personal finance information all the way back in April of 2022.
"We, as Tennesseans, deserve to have representatives who are following the rules," she said.
Ogles was also regularly late in filing campaign finance reports, which also contained so many discrepancies that Ogles has received four different letters from the Federal Election Commission demanding that they be explained.