Excessive Spending on National Elections

Excessive Spending on National Elections

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Excessive Spending on National Elections

Campaigns in the United States are becoming more and more expensive for the last few elections. The 2020 election in particular was a special one with the highest recorded amount of money spend on campaigning. According to the Washington post, the total amount of money used in the 2020 campaigning for presidency went up to $14 billion. This is insanely large amount of money even though the competition was very tight last year with very aggressive supporters of both sides of trump and Biden. Some individuals were so angry with trump that the only thing they wanted was for him to get out of the white house (Goldmacher, 2020). Therefore, these people having no any other option supported Biden to the best of their abilities and made sure that he won by all means possible. One of the major ways of ensuring this was through donating as much money as possible. Compared to the 2016 election bill which as around $2 billion the 2020 election campaign spending was too much and the major question remains if it was worth it.

However, this was not just the part which spend a lot of money. The senator campaigns also cost a lot of money. The party which surpassed the $1 billion threshold was the democratic party and 22% of these contributions were from small dollar donors (Goldmacher, 2020). All this money used for campaign as some people suggest would have been used to solve some pressuring social problem. For reasons like these most people stop voting when they realize that political campaigns are just what weakens the American society and especially the realization that during the campaigns is when there is a lot of ‘dirty’ money getting out and getting into the system. This includes money from drugs and other illegal businesses and operations.

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Goldmacher, S. (2020). The 2020 Campaign Is the Most Expensive Ever (By a Lot). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/us/politics/2020-race-money.html

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