Politico: Donald Trump is counting on heavy financial backing from an array of super PACs to get him elected — far more than Kamala Harris is. The groups supporting Trump, working across different platforms to get him elected, spent… Continue reading

Bloomberg: JPMorganChase & Co., FirstEnergy Corp., and Sempra are the first to be designated “model code companies” by organizations that urge corporations to voluntarily disclose more information about their political footprint. The companies have publicly committed to following the code,… Continue reading

The Guardian: First King George III. Now Sir Keir Starmer. Citing the American revolution while misspelling “Britian”, Donald Trump’s campaign has filed an extraordinary complaint against the UK’s Labour party for what it claims is “interference” in the US… Continue reading

I’ve been chronicling the increase in spending on election litigation. Since 2015, election donors may contribute to “election recounts and contests and other legal proceedings,” above and beyond individual candidate campaign contribution limits. Perhaps surprisingly, the pace of fundraising actually… Continue reading

New: Political advertisers in the United States spent more than $619 million on the two largest digital ad platforms between the beginning of 2023 and the end of August of this year, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis jointly conducted… Continue reading

AP: Donald Trump’s contributions from small-dollar donors have plummeted since his last White House campaign, presenting the former president with a financial challenge as he tries to keep pace with the Democrats’ fundraising machine. Fewer than a third of… Continue reading