Bernie Sanders raises $1.2M after attack from pro-Hillary group

[Disir]

Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) presidential campaign took in more than $1.2 million in donations in the two days after an attack from a super-PAC supporting Hillary Clinton, according to the Huffington Post.

The donations poured into the campaign through the online fundraising site ActBlue.

“We’ve never seen an immediate donor response like what the Sanders campaign received on Tuesday,” ActBlue Executive Director Erin Hill said. “At one point, it drove 180 contributions through our platform per minute.”


Correct the Record, a super-PAC led by Clinton ally David Brock, sent an email out on Monday comparing Sanders to British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, a committed socialist.

The attack linked Sanders, who identifies as a Democratic socialist, to controversial remarks made by Corbyn, including his praise of the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez.

The email also quoted Corbyn calling the death of Osama bin Laden “a tragedy,” as there was no attempt to arrest and put the al Qaeda leader on trial.
Bernie Sanders raises $1.2M after attack from pro-Hillary group

Yep. Keep it up.

And I came across an interesting little PAC loophole:
PACs’ creative rule-bending

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Sanders will be 75 in January 2017.

He's simply too fucking old to be president.

 

[Disir]

It's going to be fine.

 

[David_42]

Sanders will be 75 in January 2017.

He's simply too fucking old to be president.

Yeah, sure. *yawn*

 

[LogikAndReazon]

Socialist, Democratic Socialist, Collectivist, Marxist, Progressive, Communist...

All shades of the same repugnant ideology......

 

[MisterBeale]

Sanders will be 75 in January 2017.

He's simply too fucking old to be president.

Yah, you're probably right. Reagan was 74 when he was re-elected. He was already probably showing signs of his age. . .

But Americans would elect Reagan again if you let them. Is being dead a disqualifier? I'm not sure, it doesn't say so in the constitution.


Rumors began to circulate that he had Alzheimer's disease.[209][210] Reagan rebounded in the second debate, and confronted questions about his age, quipping, "I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience", which generated applause and laughter, even from Mondale himself.[211]

That November, Reagan was re-elected, winning 49 of 50 states.[212] The president's overwhelming victory saw Mondale carry only his home state of Minnesota (by 3,800 votes) and the District of Columbia. Reagan won a record 525 electoral votes, the most of any candidate in United States history,[213] and received 58.8% of the popular vote to Mondale's 40.6%.[212]

 

[Rexx Taylor]

Wait till at least 60% of all voters find out how old Sanders is, By next summer he will campaigning on one of those tennis ball walkers.