The Families Funding the 2016 Presidential Election (Published 2015)
www.nytimes.com
Just 158 families have provided nearly half of the early money for efforts to capture the White House.
  • stickly@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    It’s not uncommon for a donor to support both candidates because whoever wins will have a debt. Like you said this is peanuts to them.

    The other factor is non-monetary support. A $1 billion check to a candidate’s campaign fund has a lot of red tape. It isn’t as effecient as a $100 million donation and $900 million spent blasting propaganda across your personal media empire.