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2016 Postmortem

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applegrove

(118,696 posts)
Mon Jul 25, 2016, 09:52 PM Jul 2016

Koch Brothers Now Supporting Hillary Clinton [View all]

by Eric Zuesse at off Guardian

https://off-guardian.org/2016/07/22/koch-brothers-now-supporting-hillary-clinton/

"SNIP..............


Unlike John Kasich, who had refused even to attend the Convention at all, or Ted Cruz, who did attend but refused to say anything at all in favor of Trump, Johnson was now actually campaigning for Trump against Hillary.

The next day, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel bannered “Koch brothers pull ad buy backing Ron Johnson”, and reported that, “A day after U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin spoke at the Republican National Convention, a group affiliated with the conservative Koch brothers pulled more than $2 million in ad time in the Badger State.”

In other words: immediately after one of their owned Senators campaigned for Trump, they cut off his main monetary lifeline.

This is a warning to any other Republican who might still be considering to campaign for Trump; it says, loud and clear: If you do that, you lose us.



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