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Report; vast majority of big money donors lean Democrat/Liberal

a6e30c0e6f1371ef25dcc0b3790eb66aAs reporter Josh Voorhees of Slate Magazine penned on Aug. 14, 2015, Vice President Joe Biden is taking time out of his South Carolina vacation to meet with “allies and advisors” regarding a possible challenge to the presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

However, Voorhees passed on partisan politics by pointing out the reality of the situation in his party.

As noted, the Slate reported cut to the chase when he penned, “for all the anybody-but-Hillary chatter this summer, the party’s powerbrokers continue to line up behind Clinton and the major donors continue to cut checks. For the establishment, then, Biden represents little more than a Plan B…”

Reporter Aaron Elstein of the everything-business Crain’s New York news portal cited that as it turns out, even multi-billionaire Donald Trump is accepting political contributions. Yet as Elstein noted, a Trump spokeswoman stated her boss is “now accepting donations because his campaign was being inundated with five or ten-dollar donations from supporters who want to help. She said Mr. Trump’s presidential run will be financed largely with his own funds.”

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Nowhere near the millions pledged to many of the other candidates, Trump’s campaign website cited by Crain’s New York will only accept contributions a maximum of $2,700. In the meantime, OpenSecrets.org has long been compiling the veritable who’s-who of political contributors since the late 1980s.

Respected by left, right and center alike, Open Secrets latest report lists the top 100 organizations (corporations, unions, associations, etc.) donations totals, while ranking their respective recipients as either “leans” or “solidly” behind either Democrat/Liberal or Republican/Conservative…

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