Author: Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, played a historic role this election supporting President-elect Donald Trump in his successful quest to take back the White House. Musk, who is worth around $280 billion and owns the popular social media platform, X, used his influence and wallet to support the former president on the 2024 campaign…

Maryland Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks, a Democrat, is being accused by a conservative watchdog group in an ethics complaint of submitting false financial disclosures in apparent violation of federal law. The ethics complaint, filed on Monday by the Virginia-based National Legal and Policy Center, zeroes in on how Alsobrooks improperly claimed tax breaks that she…

A super PAC affiliated with billionaire businessman Charles Koch and his late brother, David Koch, has spent roughly $160 million this election cycle boosting Republicans, records show. The sprawling independent expenditures by Americans for Prosperity Action were largely made to support GOP House and Senate candidates through canvassing, digital advertisements, mailers, and other campaign-related services,…

Democratic political campaigns have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a consulting firm facing investigations in Pennsylvania counties for allegedly submitting fraudulent voter registration forms, federal records show. The district attorney of Monroe County, Pennsylvania, Mike Mancuso, said in a statement last week that a subsidiary of a firm in Arizona called FieldCorps was…

A mysterious group aiming to “mobilize progressive voters” is flooding the public with misinformation ahead of the 2024 elections, raising eyebrows among officials in key swing states. The little-known organization, AllVote, is on the radar of election officials in Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Wisconsin over its confusing text message campaigns to registered voters. In one example,…

A Democratic-linked super PAC is boosting a third-party candidate in the Pennsylvania Senate race to siphon off votes from Republican Dave McCormick. Defend Our Constitution, a super PAC that registered with the Federal Election Commission in late September, has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on ads opposing McCormick, federal records show. In a TV…

EXCLUSIVE — An independent Senate hopeful in Nebraska used campaign funds to pay a progressive company that has a track record of mocking Christians on social media. Dan Osborn, a U.S. Navy veteran and industrial mechanic running a competitive bid to unseat Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE), paid $7,500 on Oct. 16 to Call to Activism…

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg donated about $50 million recently to the nonprofit arm of the largest super PAC supporting Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a report. Bloomberg, who Forbes ranks as the 15th wealthiest person in the world, gave the money to Future Forward USA Action after pressure from the likes…

Former President Donald Trump’s support in Pennsylvania ahead of Election Day is “astonishing,” according to Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA). “There’s a difference between not understanding, but also acknowledging that it exists,” Fetterman told the New York Times. 2024 ELECTIONS LIVE UPDATES: LATEST NEWS ON THE TRUMP-HARRIS PRESIDENTIAL RACE “And anybody spends time driving around, and…

Democrats have long criticized “dark money” in American politics, raising concerns over billionaires anonymously exerting sizable influence over elections. Federal records, however, show groups that don’t disclose their donors are supporting Vice President Kamala Harris in far greater numbers than former President Donald Trump in 2024. Harris, who has a massive cash advantage ahead of…