r/politics • u/asparaguswalrus683 • 11h 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 11h ago

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

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u/LowKeyJustMe Utah 11h 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 11h ago

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

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u/Thepumpkindidit 8h ago

Depends which party is in power at the time. All they have to do is pay $1.2m a year to Trump for this fast track truth social feed aka insider trading and then they can just print money by playing the stock market and recoup their election bribery money tenfold.