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A list of Democratic Presidential candidates with the most donations from billionaires.

This list is important, because it shows who the billionaires perceive as being most friendly to their agenda, which is basically the preservation of their wealth and power.

What is interesting is just how many has beens (Gillibrand, O’Rourke, Klobuchar) and never was (Bennet, Hickenlooper) candidates are beating the number 2 & 3 candidates, Warren and Sanders, in this metric.

Obviously, getting donations from billionaires does not, in and of itself, make a candidate unsuitable, but it is a very big red flag.

In order (# of billionaires):

  1. Pete Buttigieg (23)
  2. Cory Booker (18)
  3. Kamala Harris (17)
  4. Michael Bennet (15)
  5. Joe Biden (13)
  6. John Hickenlooper (11)
  7. Beto O’Rourke (9)
  8. Amy Klobuchar (8)
  9. Jay Inslee (5)
  10. Kirsten Gillibrand (4)
    1. Elizabeth Warren (2)
    2. Steve Bullock (2)
    1. Tulsi Gabbard (1)
    2. Andrew Yang (1)
    3. Marianne Williamson (1)
    1. Bernie Sanders (0)
    2. Julian Castro (0)
    3. Bill De Blasio (0)
    4. Tim Ryan (0)

And yes, I spent almost as much time tweaking the HTML code for the numbering as I did the article.