Why big GOP money matters less than ever

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🗓️ 26 September 2023

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Summary

Some big Republican donors are in a bind. They’ve been hoping for an alternative presidential nominee to Donald Trump to write their checks to, but now they seem to be giving up on that idea and are keeping their money on the sidelines. We’ll discuss what that means for spending in the 2024 election. Plus, what’s happened to Greece since its debt crisis? And what Kimberly discovered about cocktails and ChatGPT when she walked into a bar.

Here’s everything we talked about:

- “Big GOP donors hoped for an alternative to Trump. Now some are giving up” from Politico

- “Greece, Battered a Decade Ago, Is Booming” from The New York Times

- “OpenAI’s ChatGPT offers new multimodal support for images and voice search” from Axios

- “Fetterman Plans to Give Back Menendez Donation In Cash-Filled Envelopes” The Messenger

- “Mammals’ Time on Earth Is Half Over, Scientists Predict” from The New York Times

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Kimberly. The 2024 election is bound to be historic. Through all the
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0:38.4	All right, if you hear a smacking sound, let me try and kill this goddamn mosquito.
0:43.7	Yeah. I get the worst reaction. Yeah, it's going to be a good chance today, but I guess we're going to go.
0:53.8	You ready? I'm ready. You ready? Yes. I'm ready. Let's do it. All right. Hey,
0:57.4	everybody. I'm Kyle Rizzo. Welcome back to Make Me Smart where we make the day
1:00.7	make sense. Jake Cherry going rogue. Holy cow. And I'm Kimberly Adams.
1:06.3	Thank you, everyone for joining us on this Monday. Hope you had a good weekend.
1:11.4	And yeah, it is Monday, September the 25th. God, amazing. All right. So we will do
1:17.7	what we usually do on a Monday news, smiles. And then we will get out of your
1:21.4	hair. I'm telling you this mosquito is going to make me crazy. He's just flitting around.
1:28.2	Good. I heard a proverb. We'll have to look it up. But it says something to the
1:31.9	effect of if you ever believe that a little one individual person can't make a
1:38.9	really big change. You've never spent a night alone in a tent with a mosquito.
1:43.4	Right? Totally. Totally. That's kind of what I feel like. And you know, it's
1:48.6	funny. It's popping around in the same place. All right. I'm going to ignore him and we will
1:51.6	move on. You get to go first. What do you like?
1:55.4	I like the story in Politico headline big GOP donors hoped for an alternative to Trump.
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