Campaign Finance
Where do politicians running for office get their money? What do they spend it on? And what does that mean for voters? We have answers.
What Elon Musk’s retribution could look like.
Musk’s “lottery” is only available in swing states and seems meant to appeal to potential Trump voters.
And is there a better way to ask for money?
Harris trounced Trump in August fundraising. Can she translate that into votes?
Dozens of other democracies have short election cycles. Can the Democrats learn something from them?
Kamala Harris is the only Democrat who could seamlessly access Biden’s hundreds of millions in campaign cash.
The code is so weak that it serves to legitimize Clarence Thomas’s corruption. It is literally worse than nothing.
This legislative session has been all about Ron DeSantis.
A case brought by Ted Cruz is a huge boon to rich candidates and moneyed lobbyists.
A case, brought by Ted Cruz, could effectively wind up legalizing bribery.
As the economy slides toward a recession, some senators have already sold their stocks.
The Republican won’t have to turn himself into authorities until late May because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Sanders has a massive fundraising advantage going into Super Tuesday.
Democratic presidential candidates are rejecting special interest campaign donations. But there is usually a catch.
Warren slightly outraised Sanders after the Nevada debate.
Sanders’s impressive end-of-year fundraising haul was powered by 1.8 million individual donations.
More Democrats are ditching corporate PACs. A new bill would make that mandatory.
Sanders wants to curb the influence of millionaires and billionaires in Democratic Party politics.
“It felt like, well, once that was done, then we’ve done what we needed to do, and we forgot to pause and think about, ethically, what was going on.”
Small-dollar donations also make up the majority of Pete Buttigieg’s, Beto O’Rourke, and Andrew Yang’s fundraising.
Elizabeth Warren is the latest Democrat to launch her full campaign after first “exploring” a run.
McCain fought for influence and campaign finance reform his whole career.
The answer: probably.
The conservative lawyer is tweeting about FEC rules on campaign donations. No reason.
For five years in a row, 40 percent or more of the American public has identified as “independent.” But identifying as an independent doesn’t mean much when there are few independents with a chance of winning on the general election ballot.
The superdonors in the 2016 race look Republican because the Republican presidential race is much more competitive.
His unprecedented “referendum candidacy” seeks to build a public mandate for campaign finance reform.
The good news is she supports small-donor matching. The bad news is she ignores lobbying, and puts far too much emphasis on Citizens United.
The frontrunner is adopting some of the insurgent’s moves on campaign finance reform — a sure sign she’s looking over her shoulder.
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The Harvard law professor has never run for elected office before.
“I think that would democratize very significantly the political process in America and take us a long way away from these Super PACs controlled by billionaires who are now buying elections.”
Candidates are more closely tied to supposedly independent “outside groups” than ever.
His rise spotlights issues on which she’s very vulnerable.
And he’s leading by 16 points in an early poll.
He’s spent decades warning America that it’s drifting toward oligarchy. Could this be his moment?
She said she’s making reform of our political system one of her top four campaign priorities.
He said he would “actively explore” a campaign months ago. But he hasn’t yet told the FEC.
According to lobbying disclosures.
In a new interview, the president goes further than many previous public statements on the issue.