Democratic Party megadonors feel helpless to stop Bernie Sanders’ rise.
Many think Sanders would make a poor general election candidate — but there is no big, burgeoning “stop Sanders” movement building in the wings, more than a dozen major Democratic donors and operatives said in interviews with POLITICO. Most donors don’t want to risk damaging a candidate suddenly looking more and more likely to be the Democratic nominee against President Donald Trump.
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What’s more, big Democratic donors realize that launching a well-funded super PAC attacking Sanders could just motivate his devoted base even further, boosting Sanders and alienating those voters from the rest of the Democratic Party. It’s even possible that Sanders would raise more money off attacks against him than anti-Sanders donors were willing to spend in the first place.
In other words, big donors’ money is suddenly no good here.
“I pick up no signs yet of a ‘Stop Bernie’ movement, at least among the donors I talk with,” said Gara LaMarche, president of the Democracy Alliance, a collaborative of progressive donors whose members have included high-powered megadonors like George Soros and Donald Sussman. “I think people are hyper-aware of how counterproductive that could be with the many voters who are passionate about Sanders.”
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