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The Powers That Be: Daily

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The Limits of Spending Money

The optics are something that donors always worry about. You have to expect some level of backlash when you have an extremely wealthy donor, like Larry Ellison, potentially bankrolling a single candidate. Look, I think connections to billionaire donors are somewhat negative, but there's still a lot of juice in the lemon that pays off. If he does end up being this kind of outsized figure in the primary, like I argue he will be, you know, definitely should get ready for his close up.

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