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Who funded the midterms? Inside US elections’ historic bipartisan spending

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Major changes in US law and industry have shifted the sources of large contributions to political campaigns – and how much they spend The upcoming midterm elections will be the most expensive elections ever conducted in the US. And more of the money is…

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