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