Can a Billion Dollars Buy an Election?

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🗓️ 19 October 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Trump lashes out at mega donors, Democrats embrace dark money, and whether or not big money helps win an election.

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0:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:07.0	On this week's show, it's all about the Benjamin's.
0:10.6	The 2024 election will be the most expensive ever.
0:14.3	Paris is outpacing Donald Trump.
0:15.9	She has crossed the $1 billion mark.
0:19.2	Donald Trump is feeling underappreciated by donors in the final stretch of the race.
0:24.0	It's just going to be that our election campaigns continue to be dominated by the
0:29.5	Uber wealthy. It's ultimately the average voter who loses out.
0:34.0	If campaign spending is more effective right before someone's got to vote
0:38.0	well you just got to make sure you get them right before they vote.
0:40.0	This guy Mark Hanna who had like a famous quote saying there are two things that are important in politics.
0:45.8	Money is one and I forget the other thing.
0:49.5	Making sense of all those dollars in politics. It's all coming up after this.
0:57.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Michael Loeinger.
1:05.0	And I'm Brooke Gladstone. In late September, Donald Trump hosted a handful of his billionaire
1:11.0	benefactors for dinner at Trump Tower.
1:14.0	Over steak and baked potatoes, the former president tore through a bitter list of grievances.
1:18.9	The New York Times reports.
1:20.7	He made it clear that people, including donors, needed to do more, appreciate him
1:25.2	more, and help him more.
1:27.1	The top five individual donors this election all gave to conservative causes, and that's never happened before.
1:34.4	So why is Trump so cranky?
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