Joe Biden: “If you go out and bundle $250K for me, all legal, and then you call me after I’m elected and say ‘Joe, I’d like to talk to you about something.’ I’m gonna say ‘Come on in.’ It’s human nature.” https://twitter.com/IbrahimAS97/status/1127031297505935360/video/1 …
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Also, an American politician who refuses to take a meeting with someone who raised $250K for them is... just not a very good politician. Even large single donors get a thank you call.
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Punishing politicians for correctly describing the way campaign funding works is counterproductive. You can argue (and I will!) that bundled money is less corrupting, because it frees candidates to talk to voters rather than make hours of phone calls to donors every day
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Safeguards against what? Taking legal contributions? Meeting with people who manage to raise a quarter million bucks for him? Those both sound like key things a politician should do.
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Okay but then why is he accepting these large bundled donations if he knows they corrupt politicians? The best case scenario here is he's openly admitting to being corrupt but merely stating he wishes he didn't have to be.
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