Not All Billionaires: Democrats Aren’t Against Big Money Donors If They Share Their Values

Democrats are trying to paint Republicans as the party of the extremely wealthy but they don’t think they need to cut off their own big money donors.

Greg Casar
In 2024, eight of the top 10 individual donors to political campaigns supported Republicans. Jacquelyn Martin/AP

The Democratic Party is attempting to paint Republicans as the party of the “oligarchy” — pointing to billionaire backers like Elon Musk.

But as they do so, they could risk ostracizing liberal donors, especially as the price of winning elections continues to climb and asking for big donations continues to be a crucial part of the political process.

Rep. Greg Casar, who chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said in an interview with MSNBC over the weekend that Democrats need to “clearly sever our ties with the billionaire class and clearly become the pro-worker, anti-billionaire, anti-corruption party.”