Jennifer Rubin: Their misogyny is off the charts -- especially now that Vice President Harris tops the Democratic ticket.
@#9 ... all the Tech Bro dollars led by Thiel. ...
Thiel Was Good For $10 Million, But J.D. Vance's Other Billionaire Backers Were Good For Nothing (May 2022)
www.forbes.com
... Along with Donald Trump's endorsement, Peter Thiel's $10 million contribution is widely credited with boosting Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance to victory Tuesday in the Ohio GOP primary for Senate.
Thiel's donation isn't just extraordinary for its amount of zeroes, however.
Like Thiel, billionaires Marc Andreessen and Eric Schmidt reportedly invested in Vance's venture-capital fund, Narya, in 2020. Jeff Bezos, Howard Schultz, Meg Whitman and at least 11 other billionaires backed an investment fund Vance managed for Steve Case's Revolution LLC, as did members of the Koch, Pritzker and Walton families, the Columbus Dispatch reported in 2017.
Yet none of that support appears to have carried over to cutting a check for Vance's Senate campaign, according to Forbes' search of Federal Election Commission records.
Other early champions of Vance's also don't appear to have repeated their generosity either. Imagine Entertainment thought highly enough of Vance's memoir to buy its rights, yet director Ron Howard didn't contribute to Vance's run for office. Netflix paid a reported $45 million for the distribution rights to the film, but FEC records show no contributions from CEO Reed Hastings.
In fact, no employee of Imagine Entertainment, Netflix or Vance's publisher, HarperCollins, appears to have donated to Vance's campaign. Likewise for his agent. "Tina Bennett, my wonderful agent, believed in the project even before I did," Vance wrote in the acknowledgements to Hillbilly Elegy. "She encouraged me when I needed it, pushed me when I needed it, and guided me through a publication process that initially scared the hell out of me." If Bennett also believes in Vance's campaign, it was just talk. She didn't walk the walk. ...
A mole hunt, a secret website and Peter Thiel's big risk: How J.D. Vance won his primary (May 2022)
www.politico.com
...[emphasis mine]
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel had already donated a record-breaking amount of money to support J.D. Vance in the Ohio Republican Senate primary -- but last week, the Silicon Valley tycoon decided he wanted to give even more.
"Peter would like to make another contribution to the PAC, this time for $1.5 million," a top Thiel lieutenant wrote to strategists running a pro-Vance super PAC in an April 26 email, a copy of which was obtained by POLITICO. "We are planning to send the wire today, but before doing so I just wanted to confirm you have everything you need from us."
With that previously unreported donation, Thiel had given $15 million in total to bolster Vance -- the largest amount ever given to boost a single Senate candidate. ...
@#13 ... Harris Gaining Ground on Trump in 6 of 7 Swing States ...
The original Reuters article...
www.reuters.com
Taking a step back...
VP Harris has not even started to campaign in earnest. I mean, there won't be a VP candidate until, maybe, later this week?
But this poll shows she is already making gains? Though still in the quagmire of the MoE.
fwiw, from the Reuters link above...
... The margin of error in the July 1-5 poll was 3 percentage points in Georgia and Pennsylvania; 4 percentage points in Arizona, Michigan, North Carolina, and Wisconsin, and 5 percentage points in Nevada. ...
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