Silicon Valley’s secret super PAC

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🗓️ 23 October 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

A little-known Democratic super PAC, Future Forward, is backed by some of Silicon Valley’s biggest donors. And they’re sponsoring TV ads in the final weeks of the presidential campaign to oust President Donald Trump. Recode’s Teddy Schleifer explains why. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:40.0	The election is less than two weeks away, which means we're starting to see more TV ads like this one.
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1:03.6	Hey, Teddy.
1:04.6	Hey.
1:05.6	We're going to talk about some campaign jargon, so I wanted to sort of set listeners up before we
1:10.5	even dive into that.
1:12.1	Can you explain very briefly what a PAC is
1:14.3	and what a super PAC is,
1:15.8	because we're going to talk about it a lot in the show.
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