Sara Gideon, the Democratic challenger to Sen. Susan Collins (R., Maine), vows to combat lobbyists in a newly released campaign finance reform plan, but her campaign has accepted nearly $20,000 from more than two dozen lobbyists.
Nearly a dozen 2020 Democratic Senate candidates who have sworn off corporate PAC money have found a workaround: they are accepting cash from allied PACs that themselves are free to accept corporate-linked contributions.
Senate Democrats have decried support from "dark money" groups for President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, but they have been silent on their own coordination with a group that promised to spend at least $5 million against his nomination.
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