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Sugar Daddies, Super PAC's and Winning the White House
The US Supreme Court has taken the lid off political spending, so presidential candidates are lining up billionaires to finance next year's campaigns. It's not just the South Carolina and New Hampshire primaries any more. There's the "Adelson primary" and the "Koch primary" facetiously named for Republican mega-donors.
By Warren Olney • • 31m ListenThe US Supreme Court has taken the lid off political spending, so presidential candidates are lining up billionaires to finance next year's campaigns. It's not just the South Carolina and New Hampshire primaries any more. There's the "Adelson primary" and the "Koch primary" facetiously named for Republican mega-donors. Hillary Clinton is cozying up to super-rich Democrats. That's giving enormous power to a tiny group of billionaires – a Florida car dealer, a New York hedge fund operator and others. What do they want — what will they get -- for their money?
Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Katie Cooper
Producer, 'One year Later'
Jenny Hamel
KCRW
Evan George
Director of Content, News
Peter Beinart
editor-at-large of Jewish Currents, author of The Beinart Notebook Substack, professor of journalism and political science at the City University of New York
Eric Lichtblau
New York Times
Alex Isenstadt
reporter for Politico