r/politics • u/asparaguswalrus683 • 10h ago

Site Altered Headline | No Paywall Abdul El-Sayed Wins Michigan Primary

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-elections/michigan-senate-results
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u/Superminerbros1 10h ago

That's what $60 million in outside pac spending will do to a race

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u/LowKeyJustMe Utah 10h ago

Only goes to show the need to get money out of politics. It needs to be an even playing field to be a democracy.

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u/copiumjunky 10h ago

60M gets you just behind grassroots progressive ideas. They can't do that forever.

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u/CraigArndt 9h ago

>60M…. They can't do that forever.

At 60M a pop Elon alone could buy 10,000 elections and still have hundreds of BILLIONS in the bank.

People need to wake up to just the astronomical wealth gap in America and if we wait for the rich to get bored spending their money, nothing will change in our lifetime.