Politico: “A minimum of a dozen doable applicants for president in 2024 have energetic nonprofit teams aligned with them, in keeping with a overview of company filings, marketing campaign disclosures and monetary data received by means of Politico. A few of them, just like the nonprofits affiliated with Pompeo or Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), have by no means been publicly printed sooner than. Others, like the ones supporting President Joe Biden and previous President Donald Trump, had been working within the open for years.”
“What all of them have in not unusual is the facility to pay staffers, fund polling and coverage analysis, run advertisements and settle for cash from megadonors with out divulging the ones funders’ names — or a lot details about any spending till many months after the truth. It’s the newest escalation in a fundraising palms race that has observed non-public benefactors, tremendous PACs and now secret cash grow to be not unusual development blocks of presidential campaigns.”
