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2020 saw record-breaking amounts of money spent at both the federal level and state level—but the unprecedented increase seen in races for Congress and the White House was not as extreme down the ballot. https://crp.org/ftmj - a joint effort with
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A record number of absentee ballots are reportedly being requested for Georgia’s crucial Senate runoff races.https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/527426-record-number-of-ballots-requested-in-georgia-runoff-election …
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Money won most (but not every) race in 2020. This year, the top-spending House candidate won 89.2 percent of the time. In the Senate, the top-spender won 71.9 percent of the time, a record low in recent years.http://crp.org/88tsq
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President Trump's current fundraising efforts are going to a lot more than just the recount, and much of the money raised could go into the Trump family's pockets.https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8982595/Donald-Trump-family-salary-donations-court-battles-small-print-reveals.html …
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Update: Parler is working to hide posts tied to the super PAC's efforts and anything using the hashtag
#WriteInTrumpForGA https://www.newsweek.com/parler-censoring-write-trump-ga-hashtag-1549891 …https://twitter.com/OpenSecretsDC/status/1331304469833900032 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
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Sadly, this election leaves the American democracy very vulnerable to gerrymandering by state legislatures. As I said to
@saramswann, "For those who oppose gerrymandering, we have our work cut out for us."https://thefulcrum.us/redistricting/redistricting-2021 …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Though there are still ongoing races to determine control of the Senate in 2021, the 2022 battle is already underway in a number of key states, including Florida and New Hampshire.http://crp.org/sen22
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NEW: Reps
@AOC@Ilhan@RashidaTlaib +others join a@justicedems petition to stop Biden from choosing his former chief of staff to lead OMB, calling Bruce Reed a "deficit hawk" & adding pressure on the president-elect as he begins his Cabinet announcements.https://www.axios.com/aoc-ilhan-omar-block-biden-former-chief-of-staff-8e0101c5-0094-415f-af80-5583a8ff8e6f.html …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
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This is a big get from
@alexeheath. More than 110,000 government government officials and candidates were on a Facebook whitelist that prevented them from being factchecked — and subsequently have their reach reduced — for spreading misinformation. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/facebook-researchers-found-companys-political-whitelist-influenced-misinformation-spread …pic.twitter.com/aY4C4FAmMc
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As election spending broke records in 2020, giving by the influential, conservative Mercer family to conservative causes dropped by about 90% as father-daughter duo Robert and Rebekah moved to distance themselves from Trump.https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/24/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html …
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I recently spoke to
@stlintune about all things money-and-politics in Saint Louis and across the country on behalf of@OpenSecretsDC Take a listen:https://saint-louis-in-tune.captivate.fm/episode/can-money-really-buy-an-election …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
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The Committee for American Sovereignty, a group tied to Roger Stone, wants Trump supporters to either sit out the
#GASen runoffs or#WriteInTrumpForGA instead...https://www.thedailybeast.com/roger-stone-tied-group-threatens-gop-if-trump-goes-down-so-does-your-senate-majority …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
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Leading up to President-elect Joe Biden announcing national security & foreign policy nominees for his White House Cabinet, Foreign Agents Registration Act filings show representatives of multiple countries welcoming a Biden admin as a return to "normalcy" https://www.opensecrets.org/fara/results?foreign-principal=&location=&order=desc&page=1&query=biden®istrant=&sort=stamped …https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1331297953068191744 …
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2022 watch continues with Republican announcements in the North Carolina Senate race. In 2020, North Carolina's Senate race was THE MOST expensive congressional race of all time. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/526959-north-carolinas-mark-walker-expected-to-announce-senate-bid …
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Harrison's news comes on the heels of a similar announcement from another big fundraiser who came up short in 2020—Kentucky's Amy McGrath has launched a super PAC. http://crp.org/mgsp https://twitter.com/OpenSecretsDC/status/1331250722151624704 …
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Charles Koch told "
@axios on HBO" that he "screwed up by being partisan," rather than approaching his network's big-spending political action in a more nonpartisan way.https://www.axios.com/charles-koch-partisan-political-spending-762c6f50-079e-474c-9a7e-97cc320d878c.html …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
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If you were wondering what the National Association of Realtors super PAC did with the ~$10M in cash it had on Oct. 15, it put $4,580,000 into the Senate Leadership Fund, the GOP Senate super PAC: https://projects.propublica.org/itemizer/filing/1473167/schedule/sb …
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Georgia Dems plan to knock doors to turn out voters for the Senate runoffs. They consulted with an epidemiologist to form a plan with Covid-19 continuing to spike. News w/
@AndrewDesiderio@mayaakinghttps://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/24/georgia-democrats-senate-440207 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Incumbents have an easier time winning, with built-in name recognition and (most of the time) stronger fundraising. That's why Republicans, facing yet another challenging Senate map in 2022 are hoping their entrenched incumbents decide to run again.https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/23/republicans-2022-senate-map-438812 …
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South Carolina's
@harrisonjaime is "utilizing his newly minted status as a fundraising powerhouse" to launch a PAC to boost the efforts of state-level Democrats—particularly in areas that have been seen by Democrats as harder to win.https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/after-senate-run-harrison-launching-pac-to-boost-democrats/2020/11/24/11e17dfe-2e4d-11eb-9dd6-2d0179981719_story.html …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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