Hillary Clinton is funding congressional races so she can enter White House with a majority

[Gothmog]

Hillary Clinton is helping the Democratic Party elect new Democratic members of Congress http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/hillary-clinton-is-funding-congressional-races-so-she-can-enter-white-house-with-a-majority/24188/

One of the most intriguing storylines of the 2016 election has turned out to be one of the most underreported. Every candidate for President hopes to not only enter the White House, but do so with a congressional majority in hand. Although Hillary Clinton is the clear frontrunner and is likely to win the election, republican gerrymandering means that her odds of having a democratic House and Senate are questionable. But she’s spent the past six months trying to rectify that by essentially funding the congressional races of 2016 democratic candidates herself.

They’re called Victory Funds, and the short of it is that while Hillary has been out on the campaign trail raising funds for her own Presidential campaign, she’s been making it easy for her donors to simultaneously donate to the various state level democratic parties. The money will be divvied up among the democrats running for election and reelection in the Senate and House.

After the democrats took some lumps in the past few congressional races and lost both houses of congress to the republicans, Clinton has put together this co-fundraising strategy as a way of entering office with as many democratic allies on the hill as possible. Even as she pulls further ahead in the primary race and begins to pivot to the general election, she’s been breathing life into her party’s congressional chances along the way.

[msongs]

1. Mr. 73 years as not a democrat is not doing much to fund anyone except himself lol nt

[DURHAM D]

2. oh come on

It was reported earlier that he raised $1,000 under his agreement with the DNC.

[SunSeeker]

4. That $1,000 came from the DNC, not Bernie

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The DNC provided that $1,000 to open an account for him into which he was supposed to start depositing cash for down ticket Dems. He never deposited a dime:

Not only that, but Sanders also hasn't done a single thing to help down-ballot candidates of the Democratic Party. While Hillary Clinton's Victory Fund has raised at least $26 million for the national Democratic Party and its state groups, Sanders has a raised a total  of $1,000 and that amount was provided by the Democratic National Committee for him to open a joint fundraising account. However he has yet to add to this account and has yet to do any fundraising for anyone not named Bernie Sanders. It would appear odd then that with significantly lower turnout than 2008 that Sanders wouldn't be contributing at least some of his record fundraising amount to at least a few Democratic congressional candidates who could help tip the balance of power in the House or Senate and allow Sanders to then enact his progressive political agenda. However, Sanders has instead horded the money for himself and has used it for his own campaign rather than down-ballot Democratic candidates.  

http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/3/16/hillary-clinton-running-campaign-bernie-sanders-promised

[DURHAM D]

5. Oh... I don't know?

I just remember seeing that number a couple of times but you are probably right.

jftr - I posted this earlier today -

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511536448#post7

[SunSeeker]

6. I edited to add a link. See above.

[DURHAM D]

7. Wow ! Total slackard.

Does he get to keep the money?

[SunSeeker]

11. Dunno. He's probably already spent it.

[kjones]

12. He gets tons of money, uses it all, and still can't compete with Clinton, who supports many Dems. nt

[jmowreader]

9. The strange thing...

The Sanders Revolution is even more dependent on a compliant Congress than Hillary's platform. If he's planning to tow a lot of independents into Congress to help pass all this stuff he wants, where are they?

[Hekate]

3. Woot! Take that, GDP!

I guess I better check her website for the Victory Funds. I've already sent her money, and will again, but I would LOVE to be able to join in collectively boosting down-ballot candidates!

[shenmue]

13. Yep! It's called building a party.

[anotherproletariat]

8. Very smart. nt

[fleabiscuit]

10. K$R :-) Excellent content.

[UtahLib]

14. K&R

[stonecutter357]

15. K&R!

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[Surya Gayatri]

16. K & R enthusiastically.

[OKNancy]

17. She is building the party that she belongs to

but Sanders is not. And then he turns around and expects life-long elected party leaders to switch their votes to him.
It's just so arrogant IMO.