Quarantine deprived the Democrats of the opportunity to launch a massive fundraising campaign involving large and influential donors. At the same time, the coronavirus hit the financial situation of ordinary Americans, who previously were ready to support Joe Biden with a dollar.
Biden has funding problems – the coronavirus is shortening the list of sponsors.
This was reported by the agency “Associated Press” on Tuesday, April 21.
According to the publication, along with reducing the flow of resources, the field for maneuvers of the presidential race is also reduced. The epidemic of coronavirus and the introduced quarantine have changed the “rules of the game. At the same time, Donald Trump is dominating the media as president.
“Rich donors will always play a major role in financing general elections. But Biden did not do a good job of raising money during the primary elections”, – the publication said.
Trump and the Republican National Committee have already accumulated US $240m. Biden said he raised $46.6 million in March. It is important to note that most of the funds – $33 million – were raised early in the month, that is, before the collapse of the financial markets. After that, Biden collected money online, but the total amount is still not enough to hire specialists in key states for the upcoming fight. Neither was Biden announced about contracts for television and online advertising.
“Every day for more than an hour people watch Trump in their living rooms. Biden is less visible and we are very concerned about where we are going to be”, – said David Brock, co-founder of the American Bridge Democracy Group.
In particular, he complained of problems with small donors, whose numbers will decline inexorably as the crisis deepens and unemployment increases.