Despite his frequent votes against defense bills, Senator Bernie Sanders has collected more presidential campaign contributions from defense industry sources than any other candidate, including Donald Trump.
His total defense industry contributions roughly doubled those of Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren, and more than tripled those of Joe Biden.
Unless he's receiving defense industry money under the table from ostensibly non-defense PACs or via "Dark money.," Donald Trump is performing remarkably poorly vis-à-vis several Democratic contenders, not just Sanders.
While PAC funds very much predominate in the recorded donations to members of Congress in the 2020 OpenSecrets.org data, none of the presidential candidates-even Trump-have accepted any recorded defense industry PAC money.
Biden and Buttigieg must be wondering why their more compliant approach to defense spending has not elicited more for them than the others: presidential campaigns are buying seasons for defense lobbyists; the selling comes later.
In the case of the defense industry they have no need to; they get plenty from "Individuals." As one academic commented, by giving up any corporate PAC money, these candidates are basically "Giving up the sleeves out of their vest."
Salient lessons that can be learned from the data above are that Bernie Sanders is being targeted for future defense industry access, and Donald Trump is not pulling nearly as much public money from defense corporations as the Democrats-nor as one might expect.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/bernie-gets-more-cash-from-war-inc-than-any-2020-candidate/
His total defense industry contributions roughly doubled those of Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren, and more than tripled those of Joe Biden.
Unless he's receiving defense industry money under the table from ostensibly non-defense PACs or via "Dark money.," Donald Trump is performing remarkably poorly vis-à-vis several Democratic contenders, not just Sanders.
While PAC funds very much predominate in the recorded donations to members of Congress in the 2020 OpenSecrets.org data, none of the presidential candidates-even Trump-have accepted any recorded defense industry PAC money.
Biden and Buttigieg must be wondering why their more compliant approach to defense spending has not elicited more for them than the others: presidential campaigns are buying seasons for defense lobbyists; the selling comes later.
In the case of the defense industry they have no need to; they get plenty from "Individuals." As one academic commented, by giving up any corporate PAC money, these candidates are basically "Giving up the sleeves out of their vest."
Salient lessons that can be learned from the data above are that Bernie Sanders is being targeted for future defense industry access, and Donald Trump is not pulling nearly as much public money from defense corporations as the Democrats-nor as one might expect.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/bernie-gets-more-cash-from-war-inc-than-any-2020-candidate/
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