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FTX donated slightly more to Republicans than Democrats.

Based covered, with donor alignment selected for optics and press value.

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Source? I agree with the "bases covered" big picture, but all the numbers I've seen so far have D > R.

https://prospect.org/power/congressmembers-tried-to-stop-sec...

You were only looking at the ~$570k assigned to specific candidates at the top. Look further down on the page: there's a $28000k donation to the Democratic "Protect our Future PAC", a $15000k donation to the Republican "American Dream Federal Action", ...

What you're missing is that the Protect our Future PAC only participated in the primary campaign cycle, meaning intra-party elections. POF did not participate in the general election in November.

If you look at donations based on when they were made, the GOP was the overwhelming recipient of FTX money for the general election in November, i.e., the election that mattered.

Protect our Future PAC is just one of several donations that were enormously larger than the $286k R / $283k D total direct candidate donations.

Meanwhile, just because a donation is received during the primary season doesn’t mean it can’t be spent during the general election period, when the candidate in question wins the primary.

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Soros and SBF are first and second as Democrat top donors

https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/biggest-donor...

man how many times does the list need to explain to you that Salame was a republican megadonor.

And how many time do you need to realize we are discussing SBF and not whole FTX. FTX was a child-like run cult that did what it wanted and every single individual had their agenda. When we are discussing Salame and FTX, bring this point up.

The premise still stands that SBF was biggest personal contributor.

> The premise still stands that SBF was biggest personal contributor.

he was not, Soros outweighs him, so does Bloomberg, i do not see your point

furthermore i would love to know why this demands a partisan lens when the whole of FTX was clearly co-mingling funds; the line between SBF's "personal" contributions and FTX's broader contributions as a network is likely governed more by campaign finance law than anything else

Is there a difference? They're all grifters.

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