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I recalled this story [0] where the Koch brothers said they would organize $1 billion to conservative groups for the 2016 election. [0] https://www.cbsnews.com
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I recalled this story [0] where the Koch brothers said they would organize $1 billion to conservative groups for the 2016 election.
[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/koch-brothers-network-will-spend-almost-1-billion-on-2016-election/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/koch-brothers-network-will-spen...
- javagram 6y agoImportant follow-up story the next year. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/05/the-koch-brothers-were-supposed-to-buy-the-2016-election-what-happened.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/05/the-koch-brother... “The Koch Brothers Were Supposed to Buy the 2016 Election: What happened?” As the article notes, Trump (who was not Koch-backed) won with very little spending compared to his big-money backed conventional GOP opponents. They decided to step back and spend less in 2016 as a result, since they didn’t support either Trump or Hillary.