>> Bernie Sanders with the biggest individual haul in q3, but not the biggest increase percentage
wise.
At a 257% quarterly jumped from $2.8 million to $10 million in the third quarter, Andrew
Yang posted the largest percentage gain and fundraising amongst all Democrats to report
so far, and even topped the 19% quarterly gain by President Donald Trump's re-election
campaign.
So he jumped up to $10 million and that is probably why if you're watching CNN, MSNBC,
you've suddenly seen his face all over the place, but you can't deny it.
They respect people who can raise money.
And so you see graphics like this pop up showing that yes, Bernie's got the most money but
hey, wait, he's not there.
Even though he raised $4 million more than Cory Booker they decided to go with Cory Booker
on that.
>> Wow.
>> Now, he later tweeted that MSNBC corrected that, eventually.
But it wasn't just MSNBC.
You can also see on CNN.
They did, effectively, the same thing in this graphic.
They fit in one more person, but not one more Yang.
>> So, they put in an extra person, but still kept the Cory Booker.
>> Yeah.
>> And so, I would be incredibly frustrated by that, especially coming, like, a huge increase
in your fundraising and they don't want to acknowledge it.
>> This seems like a small story but it's not.
It's actually a huge story, because it goes to the mindset of the mainstream media.
They have great disdain for outsiders.
And they treat them as invisible, and God this the perfect example of it!
The guy is higher than Booker, but they're like no he's illegitimate, cuz he's an outsider,
whereas, our beloved Senator Cory Booker.
Nice sir.
Bravo, $6 million.
The other guy raised four more and out of nowhere and you guys never treated him with
any respect.
Now he's doing better than your beloved Senator Cory Booker.
By the way, Klobuchar.
Where is she?
Anyway, you guys all said Klobuchar about to win, could win, could win.
Yang, right.
And all of a sudden Yang's doing great.
And you still leave him out of the story.
It's not because they hate Andrew Yang.
It's their mindset that the people in power are by definition legitimate and the people
outside of power are by definition illegitimate.
>> Yeah.
>> And that affects everything they do.
>> And part of the disdain they have for it is that they feel that power, that gatekeeping
power that they used to have, they feel it slipping away from them-
>> Mm-hm.
>> More and more, every day.
And it only causes them to hate these people even more.
>> Yeah.
>> I mean, if you look at, I don't know, there's a funny Chris Cillizza tweet that everyone
was dunking on, the other day, where he was like outside of Warren and Biden, who do you
guys think has the best chance of winning the nomination?
I think Buttigieg, and it's like everyone is like dude.
>> He's like so far below in the polls from the other guy that's neck and neck with Biden
and Warren.
And they feel this in their bones, they feel that they just aren't, they don't have the
gatekeeping role that they used to.
I mean the media used to control this narrative so much more than they do these days.
>> Yeah.
>> And if you look at the amount of fundraising I mean, this is a huge story.
The fact that fundraising for democratic nominations and for the presidential campaigns has been
so transformed by these small dollar donations because of the Internet and because of a million
things that candidates can swear off big money donations.
And still lead the field in terms of money raised.
That's a huge game changer, I mean from what you guys talk about all the time.
Like that this is a corrupting influence at the end of the day.
>> Yeah.
>> That is what matters the most.
The most thing that matters is who do you owe your power to?
And if you're getting your money for your campaign from small dollar, regular people,
then you owe all your power to them and you will govern for them.
If you owe it to executives at Exxon Mobile, then you'll govern for them.
>> 100%, guys, I gotta say, look that bias is more important than any other effect on
the election.
Russian interference.
>> Yeah.
>> 100%.
>> Okay.
>> All right, it's bad.
As anyone knows, I am a billion percent against it, right?
No one has been clearer on the record on that.
But this is billions upon billions of dollars where outsiders, not people that are not yet
powerful, people that are not in the elite.
People that are progressive usually are left out of the conversation and they lose out
on something really valuable which is free media.
So and then that's the beginning and then the second part is where they attack you non
stop.
So, obviously the most famous example is Bernie Sanders.
And this happened to him in 2016.
Like Yang with this remarkable rise.
I mean, that is one of the most important interesting political stories of this election
cycle.
They're like yeah, but he doesn't even exist.
Last time.
Bernie closed a 60 point lead on Hillary Clinton, one of the most miraculous political stories
of my lifetime, and they're like, barely had him on TV in 2015 as he closed that 60 point
lead now, I mean, outrageous how they ignored him.
And and that cost them billions of dollars that Trump got on the other side.
It swung the election definitively, definitively and then after when they couldn't ignore him
anymore.
Negative article after negative article and now look, on Yang, a similar effect.
So he has, look, and by the way, this is not about me liking one candidate more than another.
I think Cory Booker has some good ideas, I think Andrew Yang has some great ideas.
And there are parts of Booker and Yang that I don't agree with.
So it's not, I'm not neutral on it but I'm super fair on it in that it depends on the
policies etc.
So when Yang's one of Yang's great ideas is democracy dollars.
And he mentioned it in a debate.
I was in the media spin room.
And you know what happened?
>> No one asked him about it.
>> No, not only that, they laughed.
>> They thought it was ridiculous.
>> They laughed out loud.
They're like, democracy dollars and then all over Twitter, not people in the media like,
they put Yang's face on Monopoly money, etc.
So stupid, to try to empower people, to give money!
Instead of the wealthy and the elite, dumb, right?
In reality people loved that idea, it's a great idea!
And so that's a different issue, that's the $1,000 he's giving.
>> For universal basic income.
But and by the way, Kirsten Gillibrand also had democracy dollars in her campaign.
They're like, but it's a beloved senator.
That is very serious.
>> I'm sorry, those are Gillibucks.
>> But that free media is single handedly sustaining the Biden campaign at this point,
if you look at his the number of mentions that he gets on cable news, it's a factor
of like-
>> Four times higher than the next.
>> Four times higher than the next person.
And it's like, you know, you watch the debate like we watched it, the last debate and then
you see all the mainstream pundits saying, I think he won the night and I'm like, he
couldn't even complete a full sentence.
I don't understand like, what do you guys are watching the same thing.
>> Yeah.
>> And that's single handedly sustaining his campaign right now, that aura of respectability
or inevitability or whatever.
>> And the final thing is they are so biased, that despite this overwhelming evidence, they
say what bias?.
>> Right.
>> I don't see any bias.
>> Yeah.
>> You leave Yang out?
Of course he's a Yang, of course you leave him out, right?
But Bernie closing a 60 point lead when we all thought he'd never get above 2%.
Of course you leave that out.
That's not an interesting story.
And they're like what bias?
That's when you know your bias is as bad as it could possibly be when you're blinded by
it.