The Hill’s Jessie Hellman reports: The Donald Trump campaign sent its first “emergency” fundraising email to supporters Saturday, seeking to raise at least $100,000 by the end of the day. That request follows a multimillion-dollar...
Great observation from Mark Hmmer, via The Daily 202: The genius of the Trump Clinton Twitter war of 2016 is that it consumes Trump's every waking minute & Clinton doesn't know it's happening. — Mark Hammer (@markhammer1987)...
Update: Orlando shooter inspired by Islamic extremist information shared online, President Barack Obama says. Update: Orlando shooting exposes Donald Trump’s biggest weakness: A total lack of empathy. Tweets from the Id. Update: Texas Lt. Gov. Dan...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts from the 2016 presidential campaigns! Of note this time: a near-sweep by one candidate. Guess who? The data is via our friends at CrowdTangle, and remember that these aren’t the...
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton don’t agree on much: perhaps the only things they have in common besides being classified as Homo sapiens are their personal ambition and a profound aversion to having the press mucking around in their business...
Beth Becker’s latest “Political Social Grab Bag” e-newsletter is out, and you should check out the whole April issue archived right here, an Epolitics.com online exclusive. Sign up now to get the next Political Social Grab Bag...
New contributor! Bryan Fratkin is a friend-of-e.politics and the founder of SparkInfluence. He recently noticed that Marco Rubio limits his constituents to small sips of water on the communications front, metaphorically speaking. At SparkInfluence...
Advertising Age’s Kate Kaye caught something this week that startled me: …despite the fact that he continues to campaign hard in California, which holds its delegate-rich primary next week, the Sanders campaign appears to have brought...
Quick thought: when advocates, fundraisers and organizers talk about the “ladder of engagment”, we usually speak in terms of “moving people up.” I.e., we’re getting our supporters to take higher-value actions over time...
Chris Cillizza called it a declaration of war: yesterday, Bernie Sanders endorsed DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s primary opponent in her race to retain her House seat. Today, he followed it up with a fundraising email asking supporters...