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The great transport of the DNC
Joe Biden’s crusade, the Democratic National Committee and its joint fundraising committees raised $70 million at the four-day party conference this week, Biden’s crusade for CNN said Friday.
The coup comes a week after raising $48 million in the first two days after Biden elected California Sen. Kamala Harris as vice president, preparing in August for a massive fundraiser for Democrats after Biden in recent months virtually dismissed President Donald Trump. advantage of money. Array..
In 4 days, about 122 million people watched the conference, adding 85.1 million television and 35.5 million live perspectives combined on the online platforms of the organizations that broadcast the conference, according to Biden’s crusade. Biden’s crusade and the Social Media platforms of the Democratic National Convention, adding YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, have had a total of 128.7 million video perspectives and 31.4 million interactions, or once they have shared, clicked or commented on that content.
Trump used the White House as his own funeral home
Trump goes with the message “what pandemic?”
On Friday, President Trump tried to reject Joe Biden’s speech and told a conservative group, “Where Joe Biden sees American darkness, I see American greatness.”
“They spent four consecutive days attacking the United States as a racist and terrible country that wants to be redeemed,” Trump said at a National Policy Council rally in Arlington. “Joe Biden has darkly declared a season of American darkness, yet look what we’ve achieved.”
A behind-the-scenes look at DNC drama
It’s too early to tell if the conference has given Joe Biden a touch in the polls, but it’s improved Democratic donations.
ActBlue, the online donation platform used through top Democratic campaigns, processed about $26.2 million in donations on Thursday when Biden delivered his acceptance speech on the fourth day of the convention. This is the fourth-largest fundraising day on the platform in a record year, according to an analysis of POLITICO. In total, donors donated more than $82.6 million from ActBlue during the 4 days of the convention.
All the money that passes through ActBlue may not end up in Biden’s coffers, as the platform is connected to a bunch of crosses of candidates, PACs and a growing number of racial justice teams amid this summer’s protests. But Biden’s crusade is the largest Democratic organization in ActBlue, and emerging numbers show growing enthusiasm among Democratic donors, even though the fully digital conference looked very different because of the coronavirus pandemic.
DeJoy tells the Senate that mail ballots will be delivered “full and on time”
Louis DeJoy, the post office, defended his first three months of oversight of the postal service on a Senate committee on Friday morning and denounced what he called a “false narrative” about his intentions in connection with the 2020 election.
“There has been no replacement in voter mail policies,” DeJoy told lawmakers, adding that “the postal service is capable and committed to delivering the country’s mail on time and on time.”
Kanye would possibly not appear in the Wisconsin poll due to overdue enrollment
Rapper Kanye West will not appear in Wisconsin’s 2020 presidential election after state election officials on Thursday said his lawyers had filed mandatory petition signings too late.
West’s efforts to participate in the Wisconsin election were questioned because his documents were filed one or two minutes after five o’clock in the afternoon. Deadline 5 of August.
“When you’re late, you’re late,” commissioner Julie Glancey said at a two-and-a-half-hour hearing where the panel voted 5-1 against West. “We evict other people from the polls for not having a signature. If we keep our feet in the chimney place in the number of signatures, we will have to keep our feet in place of the fireplace when depositing.
Trump would possibly hire off-duty police officers to oversee the election, but he does not have the authority to deploy local law enforcement to oversee the election.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would send law enforcement officials to polling stations to protect against voter fraud in the November election, although it is unclear whether he has the authority to do so.
“We’re going to have sheriffs, we’re going to have law enforcement, and we’re going to have American lawyers, and we’re going to have everybody and attorneys general (sic),” Trump said. during a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity.
Trump’s comments come as his crusade struggles to recruit tens of thousands of volunteers for what Republican officials have said is his biggest election observation operation. Even before Trump’s comments, his party’s plans to monitor polls have sparked accusations from Democrats and voting rights teams that Republicans should suppress the vote in key states.