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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJD Vance's Campaign Fundraising Is Down to Its Bootstraps
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Jul 15, 2022
NEW: JD Vance's Senate campaign is a quarter of a million dollars in the hole, with just four months until the election. Me @thedailybeast
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JD Vance's Campaign Fundraising Is Down to Its Bootstraps
Its not the full picture for Vance, whose fundraising operation includes a leadership PAC and joint fundraising committees. But even that isnt much better.
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Vance is a household name & he just won the primary, but he can't convert that to small-dollar support. He relies on outside money from wealthy benefactors like billionaire Peter Thiel, who has put $15 million behind Vance's candidacynearly five times the amount Vance has raised
11:14 AM · Jul 15, 2022
Roger Sollenberger found true love, suckers
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Jul 15, 2022
NEW: JD Vance's Senate campaign is a quarter of a million dollars in the hole, with just four months until the election. Me @thedailybeast
thedailybeast.com
JD Vance's Campaign Fundraising Is Down to Its Bootstraps
Its not the full picture for Vance, whose fundraising operation includes a leadership PAC and joint fundraising committees. But even that isnt much better.
Roger Sollenberger found true love, suckers
@SollenbergerRC
·
Follow
Vance is a household name & he just won the primary, but he can't convert that to small-dollar support. He relies on outside money from wealthy benefactors like billionaire Peter Thiel, who has put $15 million behind Vance's candidacynearly five times the amount Vance has raised
11:14 AM · Jul 15, 2022
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vances-campaign-fundraising-is-down-to-its-bootstraps
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The JD Vance campaign is broke.
Thats the key takeaway from Federal Election Commission filings this week, which show that between mid-April and the end of June, the Vance team raised a million dollars, spent more than that, and is a quarter of a million dollars in the hole with just four months until election day.
Its something of a head-scratcher from a candidate with national name recognition, who won the GOP primary for a critical Senate seat smack in the middle of the fundraising period.
But the Vance campaign has never been a major money draw.
Over the first three months of the year, the campaign directly raised $38,000, total, and got so close to bottoming out its cash reserves that in late March Vance personally floated himself a $600,000 bridge loan.
Fortunes turned with Trumps endorsement in April, and Vance caught a windfall heading into the May 3 primary, but he hasnt seemed able to translate the win into financial support. Eight weeks later, the campaign was in the red, reporting about $628,000 in the bank and $883,000 in debta deficit of more than $250,000.
The Vance campaign declined to comment.
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Go Tim Ryan!
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JD Vance's Campaign Fundraising Is Down to Its Bootstraps (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jul 2022
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Casady1
(2,133 posts)1. sell some shitty books
and use the money as campaign contributions.
Just A Box Of Rain
(5,104 posts)2. Good news.
onecaliberal
(31,496 posts)3. Goes to show that money can't always buy love.