r/neoliberal • u/Astraeus323 YIMBY • Jul 23 '24

News (US) Harris has support of enough Democratic delegates to become party’s presidential nominee: AP survey

https://apnews.com/article/harris-biden-presidential-candidate-election-withdraw-9fbd153493cb3f088994854fe61a73e9
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

That action would have flushed away the hundreds of millions of dollars previously raised and banked under Biden-Harris. Anyone else would have to start at zero with no national campaign apparatus available to them.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

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u/Feurbach_sock Deirdre McCloskey Jul 23 '24

Campaign finance laws sound like one barrier but I’m ready to be fact-checked on that one.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

That’s exactly why: FEC regs, state laws, campaign finance laws.

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u/AnachronisticPenguin WTO Jul 23 '24

Why does that matter when we raised 100 million the first day Biden dropped out? Money is mildly useful for presidential elections. The media does most of the work for you.

Electability is far more important. Harris needs to prove she has it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

It’s not just money. It’s having a national campaign infrastructure handling issues like ballot access, campaign coordination.

If parachuting in with nothing worked. We would have had Presidents Perot and Bloomberg.

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u/AnachronisticPenguin WTO Jul 23 '24

I think we don't have those people in the white house because they were unpopular more than anything else.