Article snippet: Harris, who has attempted to adopt the anti-elite rhetoric deployed by President Trump, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), is almost exclusively being funded by California residents and specifically those working for major law firms, multinational corporations, and Silicon Valley tech conglomerates. Detailed donor-base maps created by the New York Times reveal that Sanders’ left-wing populist campaign, for example, has nearly three times as many individual donors as Harris’s. And when Sanders is excluded, Harris still only dominates with donor funding in California’s elite coastal zip codes, while Warren has the most across-the-country support from individual donors. Less than 40 percent of Harris’s funding has come from small-dollar donors giving $200 or less. The majority of her donations, more than 56 percent, have come from large-dollar donors giving $200 or more. More than 30,000 of the roughly 99,000 donations listed to Harris’s campaign on the Federal Election Commission (FEC) database came from residents in either California, New York, Florida, Washington, D.C., or Virginia. Harris’s top donors include lawyers from the Paul, Weiss, et al law firm, which has represented Citigroup, as well as American job outsourcers and offshorers such as the Walt Disney corporation; multinational communications services AT&T Inc., Alphabet Inc. which is the parent corporation of Google; as well as Apple Inc. In May, billionaire Gordon Getty ... Link to the full article to read more
Kamala Harris Relies on Coastal Elite Donor Base to Fund 2020 Campaign
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