Ari Berman
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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And the RNC has been raising a lot of money.
That tends to happen when you have the presidency.
Trump has obviously raised an extraordinary amount of money from all sorts of people, a lot of whom we may never even know of in terms of the ballroom and all the other different things that he's done.
It was just an article saying he's made $2 billion off the presidency.
in the last year alone.
So a ton of money is flowing through the Trump White House, and some of that money is flowing through the RNC and the party committees as well.
And so you would say if you looked at polling right now, Democrats have the advantage when it comes to the 2026 elections.
But if you look at the structural factors, things like who has the most money, who has the advantage in redistricting, those kind of things, that's where Republicans have the advantage.
despite Trump being so unpopular.
Well, it just means that it's another way for wealthy individuals to donate more money and to have more influence over the political system.
Political parties are still capped at the amount of money they can raise, unlike super PACs.
in the 2024 election, perhaps the best case study in modern times of the influence of money in politics, which is that Elon Musk gives $288 million to Trump and Republican candidates.
That is an astonishing amount of money.
And then Trump basically puts Musk in charge of dismantling the federal government.
We'd never seen something like that take place before.
And it was a
get me elected.
Now I'm going to let you do whatever you want to the federal government.
And that was an extraordinary arrangement that was only possible because of how the Supreme Court had deregulated
political system when it comes to money and politics, particularly the Citizens United decision.
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