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Salon
Salon
Politics
Sharon Zhang

GOP seeks rich, self-funding candidates

As the Republican Party veers further into fascism, the party is facing an election fundraising problem: Democrats in competitive Senate races are consistently outraising Republican candidates, and the party has lost control of the chamber.

The party's solution? Turning to ultra-rich candidates who can afford to fund their own campaigns, according to new reporting from Politico, after the party has spent years slashing taxes for those same ultra-rich individuals.

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