The Logistics of a Presidential Campaign | Wendover Productions
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The Logistics of a Presidential Campaign | Wendover Productions

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 8, 202631 min
  • Documentary
  • Politics

The Logistics of a Presidential Campaign To try everything Brilliant has to offer for free for a full 30 days, visit http://brilliant.org/wendover You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription.Youtube: http://www.YouTube.com/WendoverProductions Instagram: http://Instagram.com/sam.from.wendover Twitter: http://www.Twitter.com/WendoverPro Sponsorship Enquiries: [email protected] Other emails: [email protected] Reddit: http://Reddit.com/r/WendoverProductionsWriting by Sam Denby and Tristan Purdy Editing by Alexander Williard Animation led by Max Moser Sound by Graham Haerther Thumbnail by Simon BuckmasterReferences [1] https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00703975/1805326/ [2] https://ww...

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At 1.46pm on Sunday, July 21st, the Biden for President campaign ended. This had never happened before, a major party candidate dropping out three months from the election. Thus, Harris was immediately thrust into the final months of one of the world's most

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expensive, most complex political exercises, a phase typically preceded by over a year of careful, mounting, methodical campaign construction. campaigns are sprawling, complex organizations. Well, not exactly analogous, the Harris campaign brought in $500 million across its first

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month. That's more than the company Lyft brought in in revenue that month. So the campaign needs to organize to a similar level of a major corporation like Lyft, but only for a few months, then it disappears in an instant come November 6.

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