Weeks away from his own election, the 2012 GOP standard bearer is using his clout to help embattled Republicans in the midterms. A sleepy Utah Senate race was always a small playing field for a former presidential nominee. Now, Mitt Romney is going national again.Source: Mitt makes his move...
Over just two weeks in September, a limited-liability company calling itself “News for Democracy” spent almost $400,000 on more than 16 million impressions for a network of 14 Facebook pages that hadn’t existed until August.Source: The Secretive Organization Quietly Spending Millions on Facebook Political Ads...
Source: Libertarian Senate candidate files FEC complaint against O'Rourke and CNN for $10M over town hall ...
With a little over a month to go before the midterm elections, Super PACs just set a dubious record: with total independent expenditures at $549 million and counting, 2018 has passed 2014 as the midterm election with the most Super PAC spending in history.Source: Super PACs driving the midterms unsurprisingly...
As tens of thousands of voters in Florida’s storm-tossed Panhandle try to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Michael, their communities are grappling with yet another problem — an election season thrown into disarray.Source: Hurricane aftermath threatens to unleash Florida election chaos...
Ninety-two Democratic challengers outraised GOP House incumbents in the third quarter, while 33 Republicans trail in cash on hand.Source: ‘We’re getting our asses kicked’: Republicans massively out-raised in election homestretch...
House Minority Leader Nancy PelosiNancy Patricia D'Alesandro PelosiOn The Money: Deficit hits six-year high of 9 billion | Yellen says Trump attacks threaten Fed | Affordable housing set for spotlight in 2020 race Deficit hits six-year high of 9 billion: Treasury GOP has not done a good job ofSource: Pelosi: Dems would start with campaign finance reform if they take...
Dark-money political groups are continuing to shield their anonymous donors from public view, despite a recent court order that called for an unprecedented look at their funders.Source: Dark-money groups were ordered to reveal their donors. They didn’t....
With three weeks to go before the midterm elections, the American political system is drowning in cash. Is that a bad thing? Right now the answer is no, but that’s precisely because this situation is so unusual.Source: The midterm elections are drowning in money. How worried should that make us?...
Allies of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell used a blind spot in campaign finance laws to undercut a candidate from their own party this year — and their fingerprints remained hidden until the primary was already over.Source: The hidden money funding the midterms...
