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Re:Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake by 5d749d7da7d5 on Sunday November 15, 2020 @05:59PM (#25105808)
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-spen...

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Re:Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake by javagram on Sunday November 15, 2020 @11:21PM (#25107985)
Important follow-up story the next year. 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.

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