The decision to withhold such enormous sums of money is one of the most concrete examples of the fallout from President Biden’s poor debate performance at the end of June.

Some major Democratic donors have told the largest pro-Biden super PAC, Future Forward, that pledges worth roughly $90 million are now on hold if President Biden remains atop the ticket, according to two people who have been briefed on the conversations.

The frozen contributions include multiple eight-figure commitments, according to the two people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity given the sensitivity of the situation. The decision to withhold such enormous sums of money is one of the most concrete examples of the fallout from Mr. Biden’s poor debate performance at the end of June.

Future Forward declined to comment on any conversations with donors or the amounts of any pledged money being withheld. A Future Forward adviser would say only that the group expected contributors who had paused donations to return once the current uncertainty about the ticket was resolved.

  • ZaktorEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Agreed. These shouldn’t be the decision makers, but we all kind of know they are. If the donors were with him, they’d just keep moving along and then the regular people would eventually just have to accept their choice.

    There was another article asking why regular Democrats weren’t marching in the streets, and apart from that being a kind of weird thing to expect for an intra-party decision, regular people also just don’t think they have that much influence on politicians. Like maybe if there were 100,000 people protesting, but there’s no way it would get that big, and 10,000 people marching wouldn’t have the impact of one Clooney.

    We had the largest and longest protest movement in American history and the end result was that Biden called for MORE money to police. A bunch of kids camping on college campuses were turned into public enemy #1 because the politicians and the people who could call up newspaper editors thought they were a problem. Polling commonly show 70% of Democrats are in favor of positions that get little traction with their elected officials. We feel trapped by whatever they decide is the policy of the party, not like we’re actually driving it.