California Republican dilemma: How much Trump is too much Trump?
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Donald Trump kicks off the California Republican Party Convention in Burlingame in August 2016.Michael Macor / The Chronicle 2016
Donald Trump might as well be known as He Who Must Not Be Named at this weekend’s California Republican Party convention.
That’s because the California GOP has a tightrope to walk. Republicans don’t want to talk too fondly of Trump in a state where twice as many people (64%) hold negative views of the former president as positive ones (32%), according to a Berkeley IGS Poll. And they especially don’t want to focus on him when Democrats are already casting the potential recall of Gov. Gavin Newsom as a Trumpist plot.
Former Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, who made a name for himself decrying the influence of secretive “dark money” spending in politics, has taken a job with a super PAC affiliated
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US President Joe Biden s winning campaign was backed by US$145 million (S$192 million) in so-called dark money donations.PHOTO: REUTERS
PublishedJan 23, 2021, 10:42 pm SGT
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Former President Donald Trump (Image: Screenshot)
Former President Donald Trump paid $2.7 million to the individuals and firms that organized the rally on Jan. 6 that led to thousands storming the Capitol.
According to the Center For Responsive Politics, the payments show an ongoing relationship between the campaign and the rally’s organizers through Trump’s reelection campaign. Bloomberg reported Friday that all the payments were made through Nov. 23, the most recent date covered by Federal Election Commission filings.
The Trump campaign named eight paid officials on the permit for the rally, including Maggie Mulvaney, the niece of Trump’s former Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney. She was paid $138,000 through Nov. 23. Megan Powers, who was listed as one of the operations managers on the permit, was paid 290,000 by the campaign between February 2019 and Nov. 23.
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