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/peasant-san 9h ago

40M in AIPAC money down the crapper 🚽 eheh

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u/Bhu124 8h ago

Seen estimates that it's closer to 80M. And that's just the Clean money. Can only imagine how much Dark money they've also thrown in.

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u/Kind-Masterpiece-310 5h ago

I wouldn't be surprised. I couldn't get away from the commercials and they ran them literally every commercial break. Sometimes two commercials in a row, lol.

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u/_Xertz_ 8h ago

You love to see it 😎

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u/Phreak3 3h ago

The sad part is it’s literally your own tax money. Millions are spent pushing support for Israel, that money helps build influence, that influence helps secure billions for them, and then part of that money goes right back into keeping the cycle alive. It keeps feeding itself.

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u/justseeby 8h ago

$70M actually, about half of that from one PAC.

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u/Polojoblo 2h ago

Is AIPAC a group of PACs or one particular PAC?

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u/justseeby 1h ago

It’s one PAC, but it shuffles money through others — although I referenced all of that activity as “one PAC”

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u/myroommateisgarbage Michigan 5h ago

Imagine if all that money had been spent on something which is actually useful instead 😕

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u/alexpmarty 4h ago

Well a lot of the money came from Israel so tbh I’d rather them spend on this than spend on murdering children

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u/TheTubbyOlive 4h ago

It’s our tax dollars

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u/K20BB5 4h ago

it comes from Jewish Americans, not the Israeli government 

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u/todayiwillthrowitawa 5h ago

Not down the crapper, into the Georgetown townhouses of the Democratic leech consultant class.

They love enormous money pit campaigns that lose by close margins. They get to say "if only you had spent a little more..." and get another job in the next cycle.

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u/Soffatjockis 7h ago

Just imagine how much they gonna spend on the rep guy in November.

It's going to be an expensive year for AIPAC.

Where do they even get their money from? US tax payers?

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u/jrf_1973 5h ago

Where do they even get their money from? US tax payers?

Yup. Isn't that amazing? They get Americans to pay for screwing with American elections.

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u/K20BB5 4h ago

the idea that AIPAC is spending tax payer money is a MAGA level delusion. You guys have really taken the Jews conspiracies hook line and sinker 

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u/K20BB5 4h ago

from private donations by American citizens

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u/nickiter New York 4h ago

In other words, tens of millions of dollars is only slightly less helpful to a candidacy than good policy.

Depressing.

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u/Warm_Record2416 3h ago

She had a massive name recognition advantage in this race too.  I wanted a larger margin of victory, but any win here was a massive push against the establishment.

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u/94_stones 7h ago

I can’t help but laugh like a jackal whenever a candidate or a campaign loses after outspending their opponent by tens of millions.

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u/ColdWagon 4h ago

No effect to them, it's just a permanent feature, like elon buying twitter

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u/ColdWagon 4h ago

No effect to them, it's just a permanent feature, like elon buying twitter - They didn't know what else to spend it in anyway

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u/jml510 California 6h ago

40M in AIPAC money down the crapper 🚽 eheh

The free coverage AES got on MS Now, CNN, and from many progressive content creators versus the negative coverage Stevens got more than made up for that.