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Posted on 02/17/2020 3:22:36 PM PST by ransomnote
Why would a candidate who has more money than all her rivals put together be issuing urgent appeals across the country for funds to her campaign?
That's what we see now with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who's sending out pleas for money from her supporters across the country, to ward off as many as 13 primary challengers.
From CNBC, here's one:
WASHINGTON — Former CNBC anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera added her name Tuesday to the list of candidates hoping to deny Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a second term.
Caruso-Cabrera, who worked for the financial news network for more than 20 years, is challenging Ocasio-Cortez in the Democratic primary June 23 for New York's 14th District. She filed her candidacy with the Federal Election Commission on Monday, becoming Ocasio-Cortez's fifth Democratic challenger and 12th overall to file with the FEC.
"I am the daughter and granddaughter of working-class Italian and Cuban immigrants," Caruso-Cabrera told CNBC in a statement. "I am so lucky to have had such a wonderful career, and I want everybody to have the opportunity that I've had. That's why I'm running."
It's weird stuff for a candidate who has so much money — $5 million–plus in the bank, against her next-challenger's $800,000 or so, and the collective group of challengers having just $2 million at most among themselves. According to a Politico report last month:
Ocasio-Cortez's campaign received more than 325,000 contributions from more than 185,000 individual donors in 2019. Her fundraising in the final quarter of the year is a dramatic increase compared to the total raised for her entire first election campaign in 2018, which came in at $2.1 million.
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I find AOC is the most helpful to R’s, not D’s.
I hope she wins.
ask each of the challengers why AOCortez should be replaced.
Yup.
She is our mascot for Democrat crazy.
I don’t think New York has run-offs. Twelve challengers could be the best thing to happen to her.
Stealing from the other candidate’s tip jars, eh?
AOC won with a yuuuuge 17,000 votes in an obscure primary where no one really knew her.
Things are much different now.
I don’t think $5 million is going to save her.
Most likely a costly primary. And then a runoff. And then facing a very challenging republican.
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Re-elect horse teeth!
Simplest explanation: she wants to be able to keep a lot of it by paying people for services not rendered.
Agreed. All the "challenger" votes would be split among 12, so no one challenger would accumulate enough votes to defeat her.
How does AOC have $5 million in the bank when just 2 years ago she was pouring drinks for tips and bitching about how she can’t afford anything like an apartment in DC? Her salary isn’t even $200k
Michelle Caruso Cabrera is a democrat? I thought she was republican on CNBC and FOX News
So she can attend Garbage Disposal 101 Classes?
Then there will be the 2022 Re-Districting with NYS losing at least one District.
I think I’m going to switch to being a politician.
No she’s a democrat, in reality more of a libertarian, who is reasonably conservative on economic issues and socially liberal..
I don’t know any of the candidates running against AOC except MCC who I think has a reasonable chance to defeat her, she’s live in the district for years and is not a radically crazy liberal who will do a good job for her district and not be interested in everything else.
I never vote for any of those, because it is on social issues that we lose the most freedom and it is social issues that ultimately devour the most tax money.
Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign received more than 325,000 contributions from more than 185,000 individual donors in 2019.
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Most people have donated at least twice?
Poor Sandy. She should share the power. It’s the Collectivist thing to do
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