Forbes dug into the details—examining financial disclosure statements, scouring local real estate records and calculating pension benefits—to figure out the finances of the 2020 candidates. And there were some surprises
veryone knows Donald Trump is rich. But how about the 25 people jockeying to replace him as president?dug into the details—examining financial disclosure statements, scouring local real estate records and calculating pension benefits—to figure out the finances of the 2020 candidates.
There were some surprises. Bernie is a millionaire. So is “middle-class Joe” Biden. Elizabeth Warren is richer than both of them, worth an estimated $12 million. But she’s a long way from John Delaney, whose $200 million fortune makes him twice as wealthy as every other Democratic candidate not named Tom Steyer or Michael Bloomberg.
Aside from Trump, Steyer and Bloomberg, the average net worth is $12.9 million—the same as it was for the 2016 contenders. The median net worth is $2 million. The poorest is Pete Buttigieg, who has an estimated $100,000—or about 0.003% of Trump’s fortune. We reached out to the candidates. No one, not even the Democrats who spend the most time bashing Trump for his financial dealings, answered every question. So we
, assigning scores ranging from 0 to 5 . In the end, we uncovered the money, regardless of whether the candidates wanted it out in the open.has not yet estimated the net worth of three 2020 candidates, Wayne Messam, Deval Patrick, Bill Weld and Joe Walsh. After publication of this article, Weld released his disclosure, and Walsh and Patrick declared their candidacy. This story will be updated.
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