Joe Biden is locking down support from powerful New York donors who have spent the past year flirting with multiple candidates, setting him up for a major cash boost just as 2020 voting begins
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Democratic presidential candidates Tom Steyer, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar. | AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File While Biden’s online fundraising has picked up, it’s not at the level of his top Democratic rivals — which makes it all the more important to recruit new donors capable of giving maximum-level $2,800 donations. Biden raised $22.7 million in the last three months of 2019, slightly behind Pete Buttigieg and well behind Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose small-dollar donor army is unmatched in the primary.
The 2020 shake-up that took place eight weeks ago — when Harris dropped out of the race and Bloomberg unexpectedly launched his own campaign — is still reverberating in New York. Harris had built perhaps the strongest base of high-dollar donors in the city, and most of them did not make plans to go to work for other candidates immediately after she left the race. Some, especially members of Harris’ African American donor base, haven’t decided who they will support.
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