{"id":119,"date":"2026-05-22T10:06:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhomeamerica.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2026-05-22T10:06:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:06:40","slug":"aipac-ai-crypto-and-gambling-are-hiding-their-big-election-spends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhomeamerica.com\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"AIPAC, AI, Crypto and Gambling Are Hiding Their Big Election Spends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><p><!-- BLOCK(acast)[0](%7B%22componentName%22%3A%22ACAST%22%2C%22entityType%22%3A%22SHORTCODE%22%2C%22optional%22%3Afalse%7D)(%7B%22id%22%3A%22aipac-ai-crypto-and-gambling-are-hiding-their-big-election-s%22%2C%22podcast%22%3A%22intercept-presents%22%2C%22subscribe%22%3Atrue%7D) --><\/p>\n<div>\n<iframe class=\"acast-player__embed\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/intercept-presents\/aipac-ai-crypto-and-gambling-are-hiding-their-big-election-s?accentColor=111111&amp;bgColor=f5f6f7&amp;logo=false\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- END-BLOCK(acast)[0] --><\/p>\n<p><span>Republican Rep. Thomas<\/span> Massie was decisively ousted on Tuesday night in his Kentucky primary, a win for President Donald Trump, who had launched an all-out attack on the congressman for his role in pushing for the release of the Epstein files. But in Pennsylvania, the left had a lot to celebrate. Chris Rabb won by nearly 15 points in Philadelphia in a major win for progressives. And Bob Brooks, a retired firefighter and union head, sailed to victory with the support of both the left and moderates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mysterious super PACs with ties to Republican donors poured millions into influencing the election results in both states with varying degrees of success. In Kentucky, AIPAC\u2019s super political action committee and two other groups backed by pro-Israel donors spent more than $15 million in opposition to Massie or in support of his opponent, according to Federal Election Commission reports released through Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Pennsylvania, advertisements from Lead Left \u2014 a super PAC that reportedly has ties to Republican donors \u2014\u00a0dropped ads attacking two of the candidates as not progressive enough, leading to speculation that Republicans were trying to prop up a weaker candidate for the general election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This week on The Intercept Briefing, host Jessica Washington and politics reporter Matt Sledge break down the contentious primary races, the record-level campaign spending and how obscure groups funding the midterm elections are hiding donors\u2019 tracks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGroups can kind of game campaign finance deadlines and create super PACs to funnel money to other super PACs so that reporting deadlines are missed and use these \u2018pop-up super PACs\u2019 to ensure that ordinary voters never find out who is funding ads before a campaign happens,\u201d says Sledge. \u201cSometimes there\u2019s even a second layer of pop-up super PACness where those bland-sounding groups send money to other bland-sounding groups. God help you if you\u2019re an ordinary voter trying to track all this money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The consequential U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United 16 years ago has allowed courts to chip away at campaign financing restrictions. \u201cNow here we are where any industry that\u2019s facing regulation or any donors who support an unpopular cause can really just open the spigots and try to throw primaries their way,\u201d adds Sledge.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Certain industries have gotten smart about how to hide where the money is coming from. \u201cOrdinary voters don\u2019t generally like crypto, AI or gambling. They may tolerate it at a maximum, but they\u2019re not motivated by the idea of electing pro-crypto, pro-AI, pro-gambling people,\u201d notes Sledge. \u201cBut all of these industries have realized, \u2018OK, we can use super PACs that run ads that have nothing to do with our industry and get our friends elected to Congress, and they are going to remember that we spent a lot of money on their races.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/newhomeamerica.com\/?p=102\">DNC Autopsy of 2024 Loss Doesn\u2019t Mention Gaza or Israel at all<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more, listen to the full conversation of The Intercept Briefing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transcript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jessica Washington:<\/strong> Welcome to The Intercept Briefing. I\u2019m Jessica Washington, politics reporter at The Intercept.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt Sledge:<\/strong> And I\u2019m Matt Sledge, another politics reporter at The Intercept.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JW:<\/strong> Today, we\u2019re going to dive right in because I know we\u2019re both exhausted. We were both up late covering the Kentucky and Pennsylvania primaries. Matt, we\u2019re speaking Wednesday morning, fresh off of that Kentucky primary election, where President Donald Trump endorsed Republican Rep. Thomas Massie\u2019s opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Massie decisively lost his race. Is this proof that despite inflation, gas prices, the war in Iran, Trump is still a kingmaker, or I guess in Massie\u2019s case, a hangman?<\/p>\n<p><strong>MS:<\/strong> Certainly when it comes to the Republican Party and intraparty politics, some people thought Massie might pull this out, and instead it was a pretty humiliating defeat for a long-term incumbent in the House.<\/p>\n<p>But you do have to step back a little bit and remember, this is a party-on-party fight. Trump took out a guy who votes conservative nearly all the time, and it\u2019s a safe Republican district. So he spent a lot of political capital taking out one Republican to replace with another Republican, essentially because he was mad about the Epstein files.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JW: <\/strong>The Epstein files is an interesting part of all of this because Thomas Massie fought so hard to get the Epstein files released. We talked about it on the podcast with one of the attorneys for some of Epstein\u2019s survivors, and it did seem like an issue that was breaking out politically.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/newhomeamerica.com\/?p=100\">False Testimony Sent Tony Carruthers to Death Row. Tennessee Is About to Kill Him.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/newhomeamerica.com\/?p=117\">ICE Recruitment Tweets Are So Racist That Cops Feared They Could Incite Neo-Nazi Violence<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>\n        Related      <\/h2>\n<h3>Attorney for Epstein Survivors Warns That Justice Is Impossible With Bondi as AG\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intercept staffers break down the latest election news and the front groups fueling the midterms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AIPAC, AI, Crypto and Gambling Are Hiding Their Big Election Spends - 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