Super PACs

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on Wednesday accused Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) of “pretending like he’s governing in the state of Florida, while actually … running a presidential campaign.” He called on DeSantis to stop “the charade.”

A group of federal political action committees affiliated with plaintiff-side trial law firms donated $17.5 million towards left-wing candidates and causes after those firms received lucrative government contracts, according to a recent report by Alliance for Consumers. 

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told corporations Monday that promising “bandwagon” support in the 2022 midterms will not remove the Republican Party’s memory of their participation in cheap labor and “runaway” inflation. 

A super PAC disguised as Republican-aligned but linked to Democrats is spending thousands in Virginia on targeted political ads that attack Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin on Second Amendment issues.

The Republican Party spent millions on lawyers for post-election legal battles who have abandoned Donald Trump, said Harmeet Dhillon.

The super PAC that desperately tried to bolster Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) floundering presidential campaign had the backing of wealthy Silicon Valley doctor and Democrat megadonor Karla Jurvetson, FEC filings reveal.

A Super PAC supporting Joe Biden is going all in on Iowa, pouring millions of dollars into the state ahead of the first in the nation caucus next week. 

Joe Biden scoffed at his recent fundraising troubles in a soon-to-be-aired interview with 60 Minutes, claiming his campaign was on course to do “extremely well” — an opinion not shared by his own aides.

Joe Biden’s (D) closest competitors are slamming his campaign after it modified its hardline stance against accepting Super PAC support, adding the former vice president is trying to “buy the election.”

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign is reversing its position on accepting help from super PACs amid anemic fundraising.

Democrat presidential candidates have been joined by a coterie of consultants and techies who are aiming at hitting an arbitrary target—a fundraising target—as a result of the DNC’s 2020 debate criteria. But more money in politics isn’t quite “the party of the people.”

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) unveiled a plan Wednesday to give each voter $600 worth of “Democracy Dollars,” which could be donated to federal political candidates of their choice in their state.

While Democrat politicians continue to decry corporate influence on politics, many of them #resist the potential consequence to their wallets.

It’s a good thing that political “dark money” is being brought to light. Now let’s bring all political spending into the light, including the indirect spending that dwarfs what the Federal Election Commission tracks. Let’s consider five specific examples of “money in politics” that don’t fall under the purview of the FEC, and thus aren’t measured.

Democratic activist David Brock has been exposed as one of the key sources of money behind efforts during the 2016 presidential campaign to entice women to accuse Donald Trump of past sexual misconduct.

Left-wing political operatives and Hillary Clinton backers David Brock and Susie Tompkins Buell bankrolled $700,000 allegedly to find people who would accuse then-candidate Donald Trump of sexual misconduct before Election Day 2016.

Special interest lobbyists are flocking to support their former colleague and establishment favorite Senator Luther Strange (R-AL) in the September 26 Alabama U.S. Senate Republican primary runoff election contest against conservative champion Judge Roy Moore.

Representative-elect Ro Khanna told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Monday that he plans to do his part to change the way politics has come to function in Washington D.C., and will focus on putting Americans workers first.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has raised over $1 billion for her campaign with the help of some mega-donors. The top five donors to Clinton’s campaign combined gave one out of every $17 to her presidential bid.

New video from James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas exposes a system called the “Pony Express,” which Democratic consultants allegedly use to relay messages between Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and a constellation of super-PACs funded by wealthy donors.

The Ricketts family, which spent $5.5 million earlier this year on a negative advertising campaign to stop Donald Trump from winning the Republican nomination, will now spend $1 million in an effort to boost Trump’s efforts in the general election.

Luminaries from key Latino groups within the Democratic establishment are making new voter suppression claims in Texas and other key states against an unusual target: Hillary Clinton’s financial backers. Without more cash, some groups worry they will not succeed in mobilizing against “Trump’s anti-immigrant narrative.”

Republican mega-donors, increasingly fed up with their party’s circus-like presidential primary, are sitting on their checkbooks until the nominee is decided.

An ad created by the super PAC supporting John Kasich has adopted Donald Trump’s nickname for rival Sen. Ted Cruz: “Lyin’ Ted.” New Day Independent Media Committee’s video ad begins, “Many just call him Lyin’ Ted,” as a narrator proceeds

I have been fighting for conservative values since 1976 and have been involved as a volunteer in over 40 political campaigns. I have had the honor to have served as a delegate twice to the Republican National Convention.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is not buying John Kasich’s line about being the “Prince of Light.”

The Wall Street mega-bank Goldman Sachs is a top donor to the 2016 presidential campaigns of establishment candidates Hillary Clinton, Marco Rubio, and Jeb Bush.

Stand for Truth and Keep the Promise, super PACs affiliated with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, have booked more than $4 million in TV advertising for Iowa and South Carolina.

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is calling on fellow presidential candidates to return “dark money” sent to Super PACs. According to a Trump campaign press release, the billionaire sent notices earlier this week “disavowing nine unauthorized Super PAC’s claiming to support him in his bid for the Republican nomination for President of the United States and subsequently demanding the return of all funds raised.”

Former President Bill Clinton argued “it’s ridiculous that the freedom of speech is the same for a billionaire as it is for a minimum-wage worker” and it’s “not right” to say “the rich and poor are equally free to spend

The presidential campaign of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is reporting raising more than $12 million through the end of June, slightly more than the $11.4 million reported by the campaign of Rubio’s fellow Floridian, former Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL).