Do presidential candidates really need your money at this point in the race?

Lee Drutman was quoted in the Marketplace Morning Report on the influx of messaging around political donations.

At this point in the presidential campaign, the fundraising pleas from the candidates are deafening. And they’re not stopping — far from it. Often, they’ll have subject lines like “Desperate Circumstances!” “Meet Trump!” “$7 makes a difference.” I even got an exclusive recipe offer.

Lee Drutman, a senior fellow at the think tank New America, gets those begging emails too.

“Three dollars, five dollars, anything — just give us some money!” he said. “Because we have $1 billion and we need more.”