Ken Martin, the chair of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party, said that as DNC chair, he would ensure the party does not accept contributions from billionaires that Biden was referencing while not swearing off wealthy donors entirely.

“Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of good billionaires out there that have been with Democrats, who share our values, and we will take their money,” Martin said. “But we’re not taking money from the bad billionaires.”

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    “Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of good billionaires out there that have been with Democrats, who share our values, and we will take their money,” Martin said. “But we’re not taking money from the bad billionaires.”

    The Dems are so out of touch, they think the problem is “bad” billionaires and not the destruction of the democratic process that billionaires buying politics is.

    The DNC needs to be thrown out and replaced with something less corrupted.

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      No. They’re aware that if the Republican spend billions and the Democrats spend millions that they’ll never win a big election again.

      It’s not a problem that can be solved by the Democrats just giving up money.

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        Kamala outspent Trump and lost.

        Eventually you’re going to have to learn the lesson that popular policy and inspirational leadership matters, not celebrities and advertising .

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        Well yet spending more money did not win the Democrats the election. Meanwhile there is strong indication from polls, that Democrats would have won 2016 if they had nominated Bernie, and would have won more strongly in 2020 if they had nominated Bernie instead of Biden. Biden was sold for the last election with “you always have to put up the sitting president for reelection, that wins the election.” When people rightfully complained about Biden being mentally unfit to go another 4 years, slurring his speech, wandering off randomly, yelling insults at journalists…

        Also relevant xkcd: