50 political donors alone injected $1.1 billion into political races during this election season.
to political candidates this election season. Among these, a handful — a mere 20, according to the report — made up the bulk of these contributions, between them donating more than $600 million. By the time the election was held on November 8, ATF estimated the total donations made by U.S. billionaires would top $1 billion. Indeed, in late October,calculated that the top 50 political donors had injected $1.1 billion into political races this expensive election season.
Fifty-nine percent of these donations went to Republican Party candidates, although liberal billionaires George Soros and Michael Bloomberg also pumped huge sums into the elections, with the intent of shoring up Democratic congressional representation and pushing back against some of the anti-democracy forces coursing through the body-politic these days.
more than $20 million that she and fellow billionaires Dick and Liz Uihlein donated to Johnson’s campaign in 2016What did these billionaires get from their investment? A pliant senator willing to use his public office to push for
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