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I don’t see the original source (probably some dense campaign finance disclosures), but there’s some numbers going around on bluesky the last day or two:

Trump’s “small dollar” donations are only like 1/4 of what they were four years ago. Three different billionaires have each spent more than all the normal people combined.

The grassroots support sure seems like it has cratered, and he’s being puppeted into a virtual tie by a very small number of people.

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MajorHavoc@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Three different billionaires have each spent more than all the normal people combined.

To make it easier to see who out there is most invested in a Trump presidency:

news.yahoo.com/…/most-important-billionaires-back…

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- humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  “I share the concern of most Americans that our economic, immigration and foreign policies are taking the country in the wrong direction. For these reasons, I am planning to vote for change and support Donald Trump for President,” Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman said in a statement to Axios.
  
  This is an absolute lie for his reasons. During University protests, He and other Zionist hedge fund titans switched to Trump due to “rising anti semitism” as explicit reasons. He can’t say that out loud any more, but this is what powers Trump’s campaign. Netanyahu’s favorite. Biden failing to Kent State university protests is what makes them angry.
  
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