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2023-08-13 01:58:25 UTC - HELPFUL
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This graphic maps the number of individual donors to Democratic primary candidates as of June 30, 2019. It does not represent the candidates' fundraising totals: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/02/us/politics/2020-democratic-fundraising.html Further, elections are influenced by dark money and outside spending not captured by candidate reporting: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/economics-of-voting/the-arrival-of-super-pacs/ https://publicintegrity.org/politics/what-is-political-dark-money-and-is-it-bad/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/01/21/citizens-united-turns-10-today-heres-what-weve-learned-about-dark-money/
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