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| Nov 4, 2026 | Elon Musk’s record election bet backfired. The backlash may reach beyond one billionaire | Elon Musk spent at least $474 million on the 2026 elections, including $224 million in Texas, where Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton and Gov. Greg Abbott lost to Democrats.
The results leave Musk with fewer allies in Congress and could ... |
| Nov 4, 2026 | Elon Musk spends $474 million elections but loses big as Democrats sweep midterms and voters reject AI data centers | Elon Musk spent at least $474 million trying to influence the 2026 midterm elections. By Wednesday morning, November 4, much of that money had gone into losing races, as Democrats swept into control of Congress and voters delivered another ... |
| Oct 30, 2026 | Reid Hoffman gives millions to Dems in late spending spree as Epstein fight spills into election | LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has poured $8 million into Wisconsin Democrats in five weeks, part of a broader last-minute rush of billionaire money into 2026 races by donors including Michael Bloomberg, Jessica Livingston and Luke Nosek.... |
| Oct 29, 2026 | 5 Things to Know
Alphabet drags on Nasdaq futures as the stock faces a record post-earnings loss | This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.
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There is more pain in certain parts of the AI trade.
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| Oct 28, 2026 | FEC campaign finance system offline days before midterms after hackers reportedly target site | The FEC’s electronic filing system remained offline early Wednesday after the agency said it had identified the issue and was implementing a fix.
The outage is blocking time-sensitive campaign finance disclosures in the final days before th... |
| Oct 26, 2026 | Can GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, a moderate who’s bucked Trump, keep his Pennsylvania swing seat? | GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick has consistently outperformed his party in Pennsylvania’s swing 1st Congressional District, but amid frustration with President Donald Trump, Democrats see an opportunity to win the seat that has long eluded them.... |
| Oct 22, 2026 | Madhive Selects AdImpact to Bring Competitive Spend Data To Local Media | Partnership gives broadcasters, agencies and local advertisers competitive intelligence on spend in their markets to plan, activate, and measure smarter omnichannel campaigns
NEW YORK, Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Madhive, the only a... |
| Oct 22, 2026 | Trump defends Ramaswamy ad with Acton’s estranged mom after bipartisan criticism | President Donald Trump defended a controversial campaign ad by Vivek Ramaswamy featuring the estranged mother of Amy Acton, his Democratic opponent in the Ohio gubernatorial race.
Trump’s defense of the Republican nominee’s ad came after wi... |
| Oct 21, 2026 | The political ad wars are still being fought over the airwaves even as digital gains share | Broadcast TV is set to capture 48% of political ad spending, or $5.6 billion, ahead of the midterm election, according to AdImpact.
Industry leaders and experts disagree about whether broadcast’s success is due to a well-designed strategy o... |
| Oct 21, 2026 | Trump-aligned super PACs pour millions into once-safe GOP House seats | Trump-aligned super political action committees are spending millions in districts Republicans won comfortably in 2024, including Ohio’s 10th, Michigan’s 4th and North Carolina’s 11th, a sign the GOP is being forced to defend a broader Hous... |
| Oct 16, 2026 | 5 midterm money takeaways: Democrats have candidate cash. Republicans have Elon Musk | Democratic candidates hold the fundraising edge across key Senate races and 13 of 21 House “Toss Ups” analyzed by CNBC.
Republican super PACs are offsetting those gaps with record outside money, led by a $272.9 million quarter for the Senat... |
| Oct 16, 2026 | Why Trump and the GOP’s billion-dollar midterm blitz isn’t working | Republican groups have poured more than $740 million into House and Senate races since Labor Day, fueled by President Trump-aligned groups and record megadonor giving in the midterm election.
The spending advantage has produced little movem... |
| Oct 15, 2026 | Democrat Talarico says he raised record $64 million over summer in Texas Senate race | Democrat James Talarico’s campaign says it raised $64 million in the third quarter, setting what it said is a Senate record for the period and bringing his election cycle total above $134 million.
His Republican opponent Ken Paxton and affi... |
| Oct 15, 2026 | Trump says ‘if Ken Paxton loses’ Texas Senate race, blame Cornyn and Karl Rove | President Donald Trump said Sen. John Cornyn and Karl Rove should be blamed if GOP Senate nominee Ken Paxton loses to Democrat James Talarico in Texas.
Trump’s preemptive blame-casting came as the Texas Senate race has become one of the mos... |
| Oct 15, 2026 | Elon Musk cash infusion helps GOP Senate super PAC raise record $273 million | The Senate Leadership Fund, the GOP’s main Senate super PAC, entered the final stretch before the Nov. 3 midterm election with more than $155 million in cash.
Elon Musk’s $158 million boosted SLF to raise a record $272.9 million in the thir... |
| Oct 8, 2026 | Republican megadonors dominate 2026 midterm election as crypto and AI money surges, CNBC analysis finds | Megadonors’ contributions are overwhelmingly behind Republicans in the 2026 midterm election, with 14 of the 20 largest donor groups exclusively or nearly exclusively backing GOP candidates or outside groups, a CNBC analysis of Federal Elec... |
| Oct 7, 2026 | Can $1 billion power Republicans to victory in the midterms? | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By STEVEN SLOAN and THOMAS BEAUMONT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are entering the final month of the midterm campaign increasingly anxious that the $1 billion at their disposal may not be enough t... |
| Oct 7, 2026 | Two lawsuits challenge Trump’s taxpayer-funded ads, alleging they violate propaganda law | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By ALI SWENSON
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two lawsuits filed Wednesday challenged President Donald Trump’s recent series of federally funded television advertisements, which promote his political message wh... |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Trump doesn’t commit to repaying federal funds already spent on controversial ads | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By ALI SWENSON and SEUNG MIN KIM
WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after President Donald Trump said he would start paying for controversial taxpayer-funded ads with a campaign account, there’s no sign he pl... |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Why deep-red Kansas has become an unexpected Senate battleground | Kansas has emerged as an unexpected Senate battleground, forcing national Republicans to spend millions defending GOP Sen. Roger Marshall in a state Donald Trump carried by 16 points in 2024.
Trump administration policies on trade, beef imp... |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Trump says his super PAC will pay for taxpayer-funded ads that sparked backlash for glorifying him | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By WILL WEISSERT
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday that he will stop using taxpayer funds for television advertisements glorifying himself that sparked a major backlash, and inst... |
| Oct 5, 2026 | Trump says MAGA Inc. PAC will pay for controversial TV ads that government funded | President Donald Trump said he and his political action committee will pay for controversial television ads that praised him and had been funded by the U.S. government.
The White House later clarified that the super PAC — MAGA Inc. — will p... |
| Oct 2, 2026 | Senate Republicans move cash from purple North Carolina to red Kansas as battle for majority shifts | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and THOMAS BEAUMONT, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans’ top campaign spending organization is pulling back in North Carolina and pouring money into Kansas, a... |
| Oct 1, 2026 | GOP doubts about Georgia and North Carolina have Republicans shifting focus in battle for Senate | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By THOMAS BEAUMONT, BILL BARROW and STEVEN SLOAN
ATLANTA (AP) — Republicans once saw Georgia and North Carolina as promising pieces of their strategy to keep control of the Senate. But hopes of win... |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Taxpayers have funded nearly $1.5M in pro-Trump ads. Criticism is mounting, including from the GOP | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By ALI SWENSON
The White House has spent days fiercely defending three taxpayer-funded advertisements that glorify President Donald Trump and are nearing at least $1.5 million in public spending, c... |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Trump administration begins airing 2024 Trump campaign ad in latest taxpayer-funded messaging | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is using taxpayer funds to air a television advertisement from Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign in the latest in a series of ads promoting the pr... |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Taxpayer-funded pro-Trump TV ad campaign grows with new spot, wider reach | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By ALI SWENSON
The Trump administration on Friday appeared to ramp up its use of U.S. government-funded political advertisements promoting President Donald Trump, airing its second TV ad in three d... |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Democrats eye Wisconsin Republican incumbent as congressional map expands in hopes of a blue wave | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By SCOTT BAUER
RACINE, Wis. (AP) — Mitchell Berman knows voters are angry. It’s the Democrat’s best hope of defeating Rep. Bryan Steil in a Wisconsin district that Republicans have held for more th... |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Homeland Security taps $20M in taxpayer funds for pro-Trump ads | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By LISA MASCARO and ALI SWENSON
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security has tapped $20 million to pay for the campaign-style ads glorifying President Donald Trump that have drawn wide... |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Democrats want a blue wave. New Hampshire is Exhibit A for why that may not happen | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By STEVE PEOPLES, HOLLY RAMER and STEVEN SLOAN
HUDSON, N.H. (AP) — Five weeks before Election Day, Democratic enthusiasm is reaching a fever pitch.
With Republicans struggling to overcome President... |
| Sep 24, 2026 | US government foots bill for television advertisement featuring Trump’s midterm messaging | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MIKE CATALINI
At first glance, it looks like a typical Republican campaign advertisement. As images of President Donald Trump flash across the screen, the 30-second spot says “America will never... |
| Sep 23, 2026 | Republicans dump cash into red states as they try to hold the line against Democrats in the midterms | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By JILL COLVIN and AARON KESSLER
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are growing increasingly grim about their chances in November, with aligned groups pumping money into reliably GOP states and candidat... |
| Sep 21, 2026 | Republicans target Las Vegas congressional district with help from Trump’s ‘no tax on tips’ policy | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By JESSICA HILL and THOMAS BEAUMONT
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Susan Gonzalez plans to pay off her credit card now that she no longer needs to pay taxes on the dollar bills that she stashes away at the end o... |
| Sep 17, 2026 | Ohio voters rejected Sherrod Brown. Two years later, are they ready to give him a second chance? | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — In the wood-paneled basement of a union hall, retirees sat in folding chairs last week as they recalled how miles of steel mills and plentiful jobs had s... |
| Sep 16, 2026 | Trump-aligned groups are pouring money into the midterm races | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By THOMAS BEAUMONT and JILL COLVIN
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Big money groups aligned with President Donald Trump are pouring huge sums of cash into midterm races in the final sprint toward Election ... |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Trump’s teasing is the price Paxton had to pay to use Republican midterm convention to raise money | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By THOMAS BEAUMONT
DALLAS (AP) — President Donald Trump said he wasn’t going to say it — and then he said it anyway. For the second night in a row at the Republicans’ midterm convention, he mocked ... |
| Sep 9, 2026 | The GOP was confident about keeping its Senate majority. Now the fight for control is wide open | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI, THOMAS BEAUMONT and MARY CLARE JALONICK
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans appeared to have a firm grip on the Senate heading into the final two years of President Donald Trump’s te... |
| Sep 1, 2026 | GOP Needs SCOTUS Stay in 72 Hours; June Coordination Win Worth Less Without Broadcast Rate | By Collin Mercer
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| Aug 26, 2026 | Businessman Mike Mazzei wins the GOP nomination for Oklahoma governor with Trump’s endorsement | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By JOHN HANNA
Tulsa businessman Mike Mazzei narrowly won the Republican nomination for Oklahoma governor on Tuesday after getting a boost from President Donald Trump’s social media attacks on Mazze... |
| Jun 18, 2026 | AdImpact and Polaris I/O Partner to Expand Advertiser Intelligence for Media Sellers | New partnership pairs AdImpact's cross-TV ad intelligence with Polaris I/O's advertiser contacts, agency data, and commercial signal tracking for media sellers CHICAGO, IL, UNITED STATES, June 18, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- AdImpa... |
| Jun 13, 2026 | The data center boom is colliding with the midterms | More than 200 data centers are going up in dozens of competitive House districts — and neither party knows how to handle their political fallout heading into the midterms.
The energy-hungry computing infrastructure being built to meet the e... |
| Jun 12, 2026 | 5 Things to Know
SpaceX IPO, U.S.-Iran deal, Bezos on AI and more in Morning Squawk | This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.
Happy Friday. Follow along with CNBC’s reporters throughout the day as we cover SpaceX’s record-setting IPO, on air and online.
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| May 27, 2026 | Billionaire Tom Steyer’s ad spending breaks records in California governor’s race | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Win or lose, billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer will leave a mark in the history books in his bid to become California’s next governor — he’s running the most ex... |
| May 18, 2026 | Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie is Trump revenge tour’s next target | Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., will face off against Ed Gallrein, a candidate backed by President Donald Trump, in a Republican primary on Tuesday.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth campaigned Monday with Gallrein in an unusual move for a Pentagon... |
| Apr 29, 2026 | Responsible Scale in Political Advertising: How AI Is Rebuilding Transparency Across the Open Internet | Share
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Artificial intelligence has changed the mechanics of political advertising faster than the market has changed its standards for governing it. Campaigns now move across connected TV, online video, display, nativ... |
| Oct 30, 2025 | Democrats, allied groups pour millions into Pennsylvania Supreme Court race to counter GOP campaign | By MARC LEVY, Associated Press
LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — Democrats and their allied groups are pouring in more money, cutting a fresh television ad with Gov. Josh Shapiro and sending in the national party chairman in the final week of campaigni... |
| Oct 24, 2025 | Trump ends trade talks with Canada over tariffs ad that Ontario premier now says he’ll phase out | By WILL WEISSERT, SEUNG MIN KIM and ROB GILLIES, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced he’s ending “all trade negotiations” with Canada because of a television ad sponsored by one of its provinces that used the... |
| Sep 2, 2025 | Political ad spending expected to hit new record, surpassing 2022 midterms by 20% | Political ad spending during this midterm season is projected to be the most expensive on record, surpassing the 2022 cycle by roughly $2 billion.
Spending on connected TV, or CTV, which covers any television that connects to streaming apps... |
| Mar 11, 2025 | National Politics | How the White House hired Republican political firms to launch an anti-migrant ad campaign | The other firm selected for the contract was Safe America Media, LLC, which was incorporated in Delaware a few days before the solicitation with an address to a property owned by Republican consultant Mike McElwain. Safe America Media has a... |
| Nov 27, 2024 | The Shifting Sands of American Politics: Trump’s Victory and the Evolving Role of Black Women | The 2024 election results have sent shockwaves through the political landscape. Donald Trump’s unexpected victory has left many questioning the dynamics of voter behavior and the implications for various demographic groups. The narrative is... |
| Nov 26, 2024 | National Politics | Trump won about 2.5M more votes than in 2020, some in unexpected places | There were some notable pieces to how Trump’s victory came together:Trump took a bite in Northern metros
Though Trump improved across the map, his gains were particularly noteworthy in urban counties home to the cities of Detroit, Milwaukee... |
| Nov 6, 2024 | Record high US$15.9 billion spent on US election campaigns | The 2024 US election, which went to the polls on Tuesday (Nov 5), is set to become the most expensive in history, with total contributions reaching US$15.9 billion.
The spending, which includes congressional contests, will surpass the US$15... |
| Nov 4, 2024 | Why voters in a handful of swing states will decide the US presidential election | The winner of Tuesday's (Nov 5) US presidential election will govern a nation of more than 330 million people, but the contest will almost certainly be decided by just tens of thousands of voters – a tiny fraction of the populace – in ... |
| Nov 1, 2024 | The High-Stakes Game of Senate Control: A Battle of Dollars and Votes | The 2024 election cycle is a battlefield. The stakes are high, and the air is thick with tension. For Democrats, the math is brutal. They must defend eight Senate seats in states that lean Republican. A loss could spell disaster. It’s a gam... |
| Oct 31, 2024 | National Politics | The struggle for Senate control goes down to the wire as spending shatters records | For Democrats, the brutal math of this year’s election cycle is forcing them to defend eight seats in tough states. Losses by established incumbents could amount to an extinction-level event for Democrats who represent reliably Republican s... |
| Oct 30, 2024 | National Politics | Voters drowning in ads from ‘obscene’ amounts of cash flooding Montana U.S. Senate race | At a weekend Tester rally in Bozeman, Montana — where Sheehy in August held an event with Trump that drew thousands of people — the crowd for the incumbent lawmaker numbered in the dozens.
Josh Olsen, an outdoor guide and Tester voter, worr... |
| Oct 21, 2024 | National Politics | DeSantis using state money, time and his power to fight abortion rights measure | “This affidavit exposes state interference at the highest level. It’s clear the State is hellbent on keeping Florida’s unpopular, cruel abortion ban in place,” Yes on 4 campaign director Lauren Brenzel said in a statement emailed to reporte... |
| Oct 7, 2024 | National Politics | How important is Wisconsin? Trump’s now visited 4 times in 8 days | “In the political chatter class, they’re worried,” said Brandon Scholz, a retired Republican strategist and longtime political observer in Wisconsin who voted for Trump in 2020 but said he is not voting for Trump or Harris this year. “I thi... |
| Sep 3, 2024 | The Race to the White House: A High-Stakes Showdown | The countdown to Election Day is on. The political arena is heating up as candidates gear up for a fierce battle. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are at the forefront, each vying for the presidency. The stakes are high, and the strategies ar... |
| Sep 3, 2024 | National Politics | The presidential campaigns brace for an intense sprint to Election Day | The Harris campaign still put out a memo over the weekend casting itself as “the clear underdogs” in the contest.
“There’s not a scenario here that’s easy,” Harris senior adviser David Plouffe said in an interview. “The pathway to beating D... |
| Aug 17, 2024 | Trump, Harris to vie for Pennsylvania votes with rally, bus tour | Previous
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Republican presidential nominee and former US president Donald Trump points as he speaks during a press conference at Trump National Golf Club, in Bedminster, New Jer... |
| Aug 10, 2024 | Harris campaigns in Arizona, while Trump is in Montana | GLENDALE, Arizona: US Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned in Arizona on Friday (Aug 9), hoping her less-than-one-month-old bid for the White House can put Republican candidate Donald Trump on the back foot in the West.
The Democratic pr... |
| Jun 3, 2024 | National Politics | Republicans make Biden’s EV push an election-year issue as Democrats take a more nuanced approach | But interviews with about 20 voters in the pivotal industrial heartlands of Ohio and Michigan reveal a more complicated dynamic among people who may decide the winner of November’s presidential and Senate elections.
The Toledo area is itsel... |
| Apr 12, 2024 | National Politics | A near-total ban on abortion has supercharged the political dynamics of Arizona, a key swing state | By STEVE PEOPLES and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona was already expected to be one of the most closely contested states in November’s U.S. presidential election. But a ruling this week instituting a near-total ab... |
| Dec 8, 2020 | 2020 Political Ad Spending Exploded: Did It Work? | Video archives concept.getty |
| Digital Ad Execs On Why Political Ad Campaigns Don’t Work on Twitter | Twitter kicked off the New Year by announcing it would relax a controversial ban on political ads and other promotions pushing specific causes. The move is only the latest effort by CEO Elon Musk to boost the platform’s struggling ad busine... |
| LA Tech ‘Moves’: ProducePay Hires New CEO, ChromaDex Welcomes Former Mattel Exec | “Moves,” our roundup of job changes in L.A. tech, is presented by Interchange.LA, dot.LA's recruiting and career platform connecting Southern California's most exciting companies with top tech talent. Create a free Interchange.LA ... |
| Georgia Senate runoff: Sen. Raphael Warnock’s win gives Democrats more leverage in Congress | This was CNBC’s live blog covering Tuesday’s runoff race between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and GOP candidate Herschel Walker for Georgia’s Senate seat. |
| This Week In ‘Raises’: Product Science Lands $18M, Preveta Gains $6.2M | Los Angeles-based mobile performance management platform Product Science was co-founded by David, Daniil, Anna and Maria Liberman. The startup raised fresh funding to fuel its growth, obtain key hires and refine their proprietary AI algorit... |
| A Ride Along With the Only Rideshare Company Treating Its Drivers As Employees | Since dot.LA covered its launch two years ago, Santa Monica-based rideshare company Alto has hired 300 staff members to join its growing team of drivers. But unlike its competitors, Alto classifies every driver as a W-2 employee.
“They'... |
| Downturn at LA’s Ports Could Imperil Clean Tech Startups | For the most part, the “supply chain issues” that dominated headlines during the early days of the COVID pandemic and lockdown have started to ease. Major corporations have had time to adjust their schedules and routes to a new pandemic-era... |
| Political advertising is propping up a slow ad market | The news: Political advertising has become big enough that it’s propping up the overall ad market.
In the first half of 2022, Basis Technologies, which handles programmatic ads for political campaigns, saw a more than four-fold rise in poli... |
