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- Who’s on the other side of Big Crypto’s $30 million kill-shot?
- The new scandals roiling Maine’s Senate race.
- Why you may see more campaign ads than usual this fall.
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STORIES TO GO
In a hurry? These are key stories that crossed our desks this week.
📊 Recent polling shows that independent midterm voters favor Democrats over Republicans by a margin of 25 points.
🏛️ The Supreme Court has again been asked to block Missouri from using recently redrawn Congressional maps for November’s elections.
📩 Voters are less confident this year that the U.S. Postal Service will drop off their mail-in ballots in a timely manner.
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STATE OF THE RACE
Round 2. The cryptocurrency industry is spending big between now and November to defeat a leading purple-state Democrat for the second time. Fairshake — a super PAC funded by crypto giants like Coinbase, blockchain investor a16z, and Ripple Labs — will spend at least $30 million in Ohio to block Democrat Sherrod Brown’s U.S. Senate election bid. Brown, who served three terms in the Senate from 2007 to 2025, is challenging incumbent Sen. Jon Husted (R) in a special election to fill Vice President JD Vance’s former seat. The spending announcement is being interpreted as “an act of war” by some Democrats...
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Midterm Madness: Big Crypto’s Double Tap
Aggregated summary from an independent source. Read the original at LeverNews.