“How Trump’s Tax Records Could Point to Campaign Finance Violations”
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy for the Brennan Center.
Category Archives: campaign finance
“Adelsons pour $75M into last-ditch effort to save Trump”
Politico:
Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam Adelson gave $75 million to a super PAC that flooded battleground states with anti-Joe Biden ads in September, a huge investment from the GOP megadonors as President Donald Trump slipped in… Continue reading
“ActBlue’s stunning third quarter: $1.5 billion in donations”
Politico:
Democratic candidates and left-leaning groups raised $1.5 billion through ActBlue over the last three months — a record-smashing total that reveals the overwhelming financial power small-dollar donors have unleashed up and down the ballot ahead of the 2020 election.From… Continue reading
“Biden raised whopping $383M in September”
Politico:
Joe Biden announced Wednesday evening that his campaign and affiliated committees raised $383 million in September, breaking a record he had just set the prior month as his campaign continues to ride a surge of online donations.Biden, the… Continue reading
“Trump Years Show Boom for Company Adoption of Political Disclosure and Accountability, According to 2020 CPA-Zicklin Index”
“Trump Campaign Suggests Omarosa Manigault Newman Pay for $1 Million in Ad Spending”
NYT:
The Trump campaign has suggested that Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former White House aide, pay for an ad campaign costing nearly $1 million as a “corrective” remedy for her critical comments about President Trump in her 2018 book and… Continue reading
“‘Green tsunami’: Inside Senate Republicans’ financial freak-out”
Politico:
The online fundraising edge that Democrats have enjoyed for years has mushroomed into an overpowering force, with small-dollar donors smashing “donate” buttons over the last three months to process their disgust for President Donald Trump, fury with Senate… Continue reading
“Jaime Harrison raised record-breaking $57 million in third quarter, campaign says”
WaPo:
Democrat Jaime Harrison raised a record-breaking $57 million in the past three months in his bid to unseat Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), shattering the mark for a Senate candidate.The single-quarter haul Harrison raised from July through September smashes… Continue reading
“Trump Engineered a Sudden Windfall in 2016 A Campaign Funds Dwindled”
NYT:
Donald J. Trump needed money.His “self-funded” presidential campaign was short on funds, and he was struggling to win over leery Republican donors. His golf courses and the hotel he would soon open in the Old Post Office in… Continue reading
Mitch McConnell Laments the Small Donor Revolution
I’m going to have a lot more to say about this after the election:
On Thursday, in a conference call with a group of lobbyists, Mr. McConnell vented that the party’s Senate candidates are being financially overwhelmed because of small-dollar… Continue reading
“Trump’s New Supreme Court Is Coming for the Next Dozen Elections”
I have written this piece for New York. It begins:
When Judge Amy Coney Barrett sits for questions before the Senate Judiciary Committee in mid-October, no doubt Democrats will pepper her with questions about whether she would recuse herself in… Continue reading
“Campaign Finance and American Democracy: What The Public Really Thinks and Why It Matters”
Looking forward to reading this new book from David Primo and Jeff Milyo.
“Court reopens door to ‘dark money’ in Arizona political races”
Tuscon.com:
The Arizona Court of Appeals has reinstated a 2017 law that opens the door to “dark money” contributions to political races.The judges said Tuesday that the Republican-controlled Legislature was within its rights to decide that any group the… Continue reading
“Record $13 Billion Raised for 2020 Elections Spurs Ad Avalanche”
Bloomberg Government:
The 2020 election has generated a record $13.3 billion in federal campaign contributions, funding a barrage of political advertising that strategists say risks blurring candidate messaging.The unprecedented outpouring of campaign cash raised through Sept. 28 is more than… Continue reading