April 13, 2016
Bernie Sanders is raising money for a trio of progressive House candidates who have endorsed him, a move that comes just weeks after he faced friendly fire for not committing to fundraise for down-ballot Democrats.
In the fundraising emails, backers are given an opportunity to split their donation between Sanders and the local candidate.
The trio of candidates — New York's Zephyr Teachout, Nevada’s Lucy Flores, and Washington state’s Pramila Jayapal — is running in primaries that pit them against more establishment-aligned foes. Each has the backing of liberal groups like Democracy for America, and one of Flores’ opponents, for example, was endorsed by Harry Reid.
It seems that he is, in fact, helping to raise money for other down-ballot democratic candidates.
Clinton has raised from Super PACs almost 85 million while Bernie has raised zero. So, the bulk of his fundraising comes from grass-roots while CLinton's comes from lobbyists.
Of her 85mm she has used roughly 15mm for the democratic party. There is a qualitative difference in the source of the money going to the candidates. So the taker, yes, the taker, is Ms. Clinton.
