And super PACs exist to sort of kick the teeth in of your opponent. Unfortunately, in this Republican primary, for the candidates not named Trump, this is a Trump party, and the campaign has been centered around him.ĭAVIS: You know, one of the things that I think does distinguish campaign ads and super PAC ads is that oftentimes the campaign that's run by the candidate themselves uses those ad dollars to sort of run ads that boast or tell their biography and run more positive messages about who they are and what they would do. And, you know, for as much as people talk about how they don't like campaign ads or whatever, there's a reason campaigns continue to spend the kind of money they do. People need to know who you are, what you stand for, and they need your name to be out there more and more. And ads are kind of a great coming together of both of those things. And the two things that you really need in politics are name ID and money. MONTANARO: Well, I mean, it puts you on the airwaves. MCCAMMON: And what does all of that spending get them? I mean, we know what the objective is, but what does it achieve? There's no official coordination, but you understand exactly what the campaign wants you to be doing with the money that you have raised in your super PAC. MCCAMMON: They may not coordinate, but they may go out to beers later and have a chitchat, right?ĭAVIS: Exactly. So the idea that there is no technical coordination, but certainly they are two outfits that have the same ultimate goal in mind. And also, oftentimes super PACs are staffed and run by close political associates of the said candidate. But - you know, I think Domenico can speak to this, too - those rules, one, they're not strongly enforced by the government. They can't coordinate messages or ads or get out the vote operations, anything. There should be sort of an iron curtain between the two. They're never supposed to coordinate in any capacity. What is important here is that technically, by the letter of campaign finance election rules, nary the two should meet. They will have an official campaign account and an affiliated super PAC. Almost all candidates, certainly on the presidential level, will now have both. Super PACs can take unlimited sums from corporations, from labor unions, from rich donors and spend unlimited amounts of money in campaigns. If you think about every single candidate for office has an official campaign committee, and these campaign committees are governed by a much more strict set of rules of disclosure and limits for how much money they can accept from individual donors. And this is a really important distinction. What do we know about where the money is coming from, where it's going and how these two different kind of pots of money work?ĭAVIS: Sure. We've got the campaigns themselves and then, of course, these massive super PACs with lots of money. MCCAMMON: So Sue, before we go any further, I want to talk a little bit about the rules and some of the definitions that we're going to be talking about around campaign spending. They can raise a ton of cash on their own without us having to know who their donors are or how big the checks were. Most of it's coming from super PACs instead of the campaigns. And Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who's now out of the race, his campaign and the group supporting him had spent about $60.2 million and former President Trump about 57.7 million. And Nikki Haley's campaign and the groups that are supporting her, call them Team Haley, have spent the most - $81.1 million. MONTANARO: Overall, we've had $283 million spent in campaign ads. It's expected to climb even higher in 2024. A record $9 billion was spent on ads for elections in this country in 2020, including the presidential race between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. MCCAMMON: Elections in America have become flush with cash. MONTANARO: And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent. I cover the presidential campaign.ĭAVIS: I'm Susan Davis. It's just something that a lot of us could do. One mile a day - it's not like a marathon. MCCAMMON: I like the attainability, too, of that goal. SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE: A well-deserved day off.ĭOMENICO MONTANARO, BYLINE: Smart to prevent injury, too. (SOUNDBITE OF THE BIGTOP ORCHESTRA'S "TEETER BOARD: FOLIES BERGERE (MARCH AND TWO-STEP)") STEPHEN: Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but just know that I will be enjoying the nifty 50 and that I won't be running tomorrow. Today is my 50th birthday, and I'm going on the last run of my 500 to 50 challenge, in which I ran one mile a day every day for 500 days leading up to the big five-oh. This is Stephen (ph) in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
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