{"id":41122,"date":"2021-01-25T12:52:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T17:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=41122"},"modified":"2021-01-25T12:53:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T17:53:18","slug":"what-could-possible-go-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=41122","title":{"rendered":"What Did The Donations Pay For?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/23\/joe-biden-dark-money-donations-trump-record\/?fbclid=IwAR3gSIN3he23RMbI_FX_83zcZ6Z97kVT9w-103vnElflSd8r9PQVz0Tlenk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Caller<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>President Joe Biden rode a record-breaking $145 million in \u201cdark money\u201d donations into the White House, Bloomberg News reported Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cDark money\u201d is donations from anonymous donors to outside groups backing a given candidate. Biden\u2019s $145 million is the all-time record for a candidate challenging an incumbent president, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-01-23\/-dark-money-helped-pave-joe-biden-s-path-to-the-white-house?in_source=postr_story_1&amp;fbclid=IwAR0ar12qnfMe94HjxXfk2_OzRak14IwaiVia51b1pyHYdrpRl0pMAYjU1bs&amp;utm_source=url_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to Bloomberg<\/a>. Former President Donald Trump received $28 million from such donations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;Biden\u2019s count tops former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney\u2019s $113 million in dark money donations from his 2012 challenge to President Barack Obama.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Throughout the entire 2020 campaign season, Trump\u2019s donations totaled $1.96 billion, compared to Biden\u2019s $1.69 billion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/05\/20\/858347477\/money-tracker-how-much-trump-and-biden-have-raised-in-the-2020-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">through November 23<\/a>. Trump received <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/03\/trump-rnc-fundraising-election-day-legal-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a heavy fundraising boost<\/a> between October 15 and November 23 thanks to his challenge to the results of the election.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s an awful lot of money to spend on an election. It seems to me that the money would have been better spent dealing with America&#8217;s budget deficit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday The Daily Caller reported the following: President Joe Biden rode a record-breaking $145 million in \u201cdark money\u201d donations into the White House, Bloomberg News reported Saturday. \u201cDark money\u201d is donations from anonymous donors to outside groups backing a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=41122\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13129,6594,7015],"class_list":["post-41122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2020-presidential-election","tag-dark-money","tag-the-daily-caller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41124,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41122\/revisions\/41124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}