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Trump’s GoFundMe donors did more to help Trump in North Carolina than Jill Stein

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Trump’s GoFundMe donors did more to help Trump in North Carolina than Jill Stein

Nov 11, 2016
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Trump’s GoFundMe donors did more to help Trump in North Carolina than Jill Stein

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It’s simple arithmetic:

  • Trump’s fundraising total ($306,930,980) / Votes earned (60,116,240) = $5.11 per vote

  • GoFundMe fundraising total ($12,882) / $5.11 = 2,520 Trump votes bought

These aren’t surprising numbers. A cost of $5.11 per vote is just slightly lower than the average $7 that winners spent in 2008 House races, and Trump ran an extraordinarily co…

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