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Outside spending in the 2024 election cycle has surpassed $1 billion, outpacing prior election cycles, according to a new OpenSecrets analysis of federal campaign finance reports.

Super PACs and other outside groups that can raise and spend unlimited sums of money have poured about $1.1 billion into 2024 federal elections as of Aug. 15 — nearly twice what similar groups spent over the same period in the 2020 presidential election cycle when independent expenditures hit an all-time record. ...

Conventional Democratic orthodoxy suggests liberals should ignore former President Donald Trump’s bombast, and the news media should not "platform him" and “give him oxygen” in the form of attention.

But a leading Democratic super PAC wants you to do the opposite — and will soon launch what some might consider a counterintuitive effort to defeat Trump once and for all.

American Bridge 21st Century will begin encouraging people to watch one of Trump’s MAGA rallies in its entirety — not just social media snippets or news reports....