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As Voters Worry About Prices, Many Senate Candidates Are Millionaires

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Jess Bidgood · Matt Zdun and Malika Khurana
The wealthy are well represented in the ranks of major candidates for the chamber, according to a New York Times review of financial disclosure forms.

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Voters’ worries about the cost of groceries and other basic goods have dominated the midterm elections.
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Campaigns Spend Over $1 Billion Over Two Weeks in Final Search for Votes

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Theodore Schleifer and Matt Zdun
Fueled by tens of millions from Elon Musk, President Trump’s super PAC, Michael Bloomberg and other big donors, both parties are pumping enormous amounts into the final days of the midterms.

© Callaghan O'Hare for The New York Times

James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas, spent more than $22 million from his campaign account in the first two weeks of October, the most of any candidate in a competitive race.
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Avalanche of G.O.P. Cash Keeps the Party Competitive Despite Its Problems

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Von: Theodore Schleifer and Matt Zdun
Republican Senate and House candidates are being out-raised by their Democratic rivals, but the party has received a huge boost from groups tied to Elon Musk and President Trump.

© Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

President Trump’s super PAC and Elon Musk have both spent enormous amounts to support Republicans in the midterms.
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Why Older Lawmakers Keep Winning Elections

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Lisa Lerer · Chris Whitworth · Stephanie Swart · Edward Vega and Matt Zdun
Analysis by The New York Times showed older incumbents consistently beating their younger challengers in this year’s midterm primaries. Our national political correspondent Lisa Lerer looks at why.
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Fact-Checking Midterm Ads Referring to Jeffrey Epstein

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Linda Qiu and Matt Zdun
Candidates have traded attacks on votes to releasing the Epstein files and political donations from those with links to Jeffrey Epstein.

© Alex Kent/The New York Times

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AIPAC, Crypto Cash and Rich Candidates Dominate Maryland House Races

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Von: Matt Zdun and Theodore Schleifer
In two competitive Democratic primaries, well-funded interest groups as well as wealthy candidates themselves have poured tens of millions of dollars into advertising.

© Gail Burton/Associated Press; Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

Adrian Boafo, left, and David Trone are at the center of two expensive Democratic primaries for the House in Maryland.
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The Likely Platner-Collins Matchup Is Set to Be Hugely Expensive

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Matt Zdun and Theodore Schleifer
Both Senate candidates in Maine have been strong fund-raisers, and allied super PACs and dark-money groups are mobilizing for their showdown.

© Joe Raedle/Getty Images, Michael A. McCoy for The New York Time

Both parties are expected to spend heavily on the likely race between Graham Platner, a Democrat, and Senator Susan Collins, a Republican.
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Lindsey Graham’s Allies Spend Big to Ward Off a Republican Challenger

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Matt Zdun and Theodore Schleifer
The Republican senator from South Carolina has a well-funded primary challenger who has a chance of forcing him into a runoff election.

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Senator Lindsey Graham, left, Mark Lynch, right.
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The Jaw-Dropping Cost of the Texas Senate Primary: Nearly $130 Million

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Matt Zdun and Theodore Schleifer
The race between Senator John Cornyn and his right-wing rival, Ken Paxton, has cost mountains of cash. More of it has gone to help Mr. Cornyn — but that money may not be enough.

© Desiree Rios for The New York Times

The Republican primary race for Senate between Senator John Cornyn and Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, has become the most expensive primary campaign in the country’s recent history.
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Trump’s Push to Defeat Thomas Massie Is the Most Expensive House Primary in Recent Years

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Theodore Schleifer and Matt Zdun
The Republican primary in Representative Thomas Massie’s district has drawn vast spending, but it is just one of several contests on Tuesday that will test the power of big money.

© Michael Swensen for The New York Times

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Dark Money Dominates Fund-Raising in the Virginia Referendum Vote

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Theodore Schleifer and Matt Zdun
Of the $98 million raised by the three groups that have bought the most advertising, at least 96 percent has come from nonprofit groups that do not disclose their donors.

© Allen G. Breed/Associated Press

Both proponents and opponents of the Virginia redistricting referendum have depended to an extraordinary degree on money raised from nonprofit groups that do not disclose their donors.
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Raja Krishnamoorthi Has a Huge Ad Spending Advantage in Illinois Senate Race

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Von: Matt Zdun
More than two-thirds of the media buys in the Illinois Senate race have gone toward Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, with much of that coming from his own campaign.

© Joshua Lott for The New York Times

Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, Democrat of Illinois, raised more than $30 million for his campaign for a U.S. Senate seat.
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Illinois Primaries Flooded With Money From AIPAC and Cryptocurrency

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Matt Zdun
Various groups connected to the pro-Israel lobby have spent millions on House races, while cryptocurrency super PACs have spent heavily in the Democratic primary for Senate.

© Jim Vondruska for The New York Times

Super PACs connected to various groups have spent tens of millions of dollars in advertisements for Tuesday’s primary elections in Illinois.
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How A.I. Money Is Flooding Into the Midterm Elections

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Theodore Schleifer and Matt Zdun
A.I. companies, along with allied groups and executives, spent at least $83 million on federal elections last year, and huge amounts are set to arrive this year.

© Caroline Brehman/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Greg Brockman, a co-founder of OpenAI, and his wife, Anna, have donated tens of millions of dollars to the leading super PACs backing the A.I. industry and President Trump.
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