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Bernie Sanders: “Billionaires in The United States are.0005% of the…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Meanwhile, the uber rich do spend money to protect their incredible wealth. They do it by buying influence and increasingly by buying our elections. Billionaires in The United States are.0005% of the population. Yet they accounted for 18% of 2024 electoral spending. Tiny number of people spending huge amounts of money to buy elections. Just 150 billionaire families spent nearly $2 billion to buy our recent elections. (02:56–03:14)

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Asserts that U.S. billionaires, who are 0.0005% of the population, accounted for 18% of 2024 electoral spending.

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