The financial supporters not named by the campaign include former ambassadors and wealthy investors.
Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign omitted more than 20 high-level fundraisers from a list of top bundlers it disclosed last week.
Candidates voluntarily disclose bundlers to signal forthrightness and allay concerns about conflicts of interest, and lists of bundlers — people who are frequently rewarded with ambassadorships and nominations to other administration posts — offer important windows into the high-powered networks that support candidates like Buttigieg.
“In creating this updated list, we went through to recalculate totals from the earlier list to make sure we were being accurate,” campaign spokesman Chris Meagher said in a statement. Some people who had been previously disclosed in a document to donors were “inadvertently” not listed again in the disclosure Friday, Meagher continued.
Buttigieg is the only major current candidate who has disclosed campaign bundlers. Kamala Harris disclosed her bundlers before she ended her bid, while Bernie Sanders and Warren do not attend big-money private fundraisers. But other 2020 rivals — including Joe Biden, who has been frequenting the big-donor circuit — are not revealing their bundlers, though there is a tradition of both Democratic and Republican candidates doing so. President Donald Trump has also not revealed his top fundraisers.
But as Buttigieg’s poll numbers have risen in Iowa and New Hampshire, critics on the left are accusing the South Bend, Ind., mayor of failing to live up to Democratic Party ideals. Protesters picketed outside a Buttigieg fundraiser in New York last week, chanting “Wall Street Pete.” Warren, who is competing with Buttigieg for the top spot in February's Iowa caucuses, has been particularly critical, calling out Buttigieg for offering donors “regular phone calls and special access.
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