Campaigns
Buttigieg's political future takes shape through town halls, fundraising texts and manosphere podcasts
Politico
"When he finished his conversation with Giridharadas, Buttigieg himself pushed out the interview to his own 350,000 Substack subscribers that he earned in less than two months, according to the second adviser — a built-in audience he is growing."
Content
The massive right-wing network you’ve never heard of
Chaotic Era
"The Trending Politics brand boasts a highly engaged follower base of 2.4 million across Facebook, X, Instagram, and YouTube, and has its own newsletter and mobile news app."
Data
Prediction markets didn’t get the Pope right, but this did
The Intersection
"But a group of Italian scholars was able to call the surprise election of Cardinal Robert Prevost using network analysis to examine the cardinals’ relationships to each other to gauge who was most influential."
Fundraising
Republicans Have a Small-Dollar Donor Problem. Can They Fix it?
Campaigns & Elections
"The divide is even starker in the Senate. Forty-four percent of Democrats’ average quarterly fundraising came from small-dollar donors. Among Senate Republicans, it was just 5 percent."
Dems go after GOP online fundraising after Trump attacks ActBlue
Politico
"Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.) and Gerald Connolly (D-Va.)'s demand for 'suspicious activity reports' is a response to Trump’s and the GOP’s parallel effort to turn the screws on ActBlue, the Democratic online fundraising powerhouse that Republicans have recently targeted over allegations of illegal foreign donations."
International
Nigel Farage is a hit on TikTok – but are young voters listening or laughing?
The Guardian
"It is a level of digital dominance his rivals can only dream of. A Guardian analysis of more than 12,000 posts found that since the general election, Reform has achieved almost 14 times the engagement (measured in likes, comments or shares) per post as Labour, the Conservatives or the Lib Dems on the platform."
Social Media
What Campaigners Need To Know About WhatsApp
Campaign Trend
"Even thought the adoption of WhatsApp isn’t as widespread as we see with some other platforms, it over indexes among Hispanic Americans, with 46% saying they use the app, compared to just 23% of Black Americans or 16% of White Americans."
Senate Dems told to get on Twitch, Snapchat
Axios
"Booker shared a chart, reviewed by Axios, which shows that Senate Democrats last month averaged nearly 1.4 million more social media engagements per day than Republicans."
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