{"id":35140,"date":"2025-03-05T15:56:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T15:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/packed-pacs-how-billionaires-in-the-us-are-bankrolling-republicans-at-the-state-level\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T15:56:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T15:56:48","slug":"packed-pacs-how-billionaires-in-the-us-are-bankrolling-republicans-at-the-state-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/packed-pacs-how-billionaires-in-the-us-are-bankrolling-republicans-at-the-state-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Packed Pacs: how billionaires in the US are bankrolling Republicans at the state level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans are relying on \u2018nameless\u2019 donors who want to push a rightwing agenda and gain long-term hegemony<\/p>\n<p>Billionaires are increasingly bankrolling Republican candidates in state legislative races across the US to push a rightwing agenda and gain long-term hegemony.<\/p>\n<p>The concerted effort shows that Donald Trump ally Elon Musk, currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/02\/elon-musk-wisconsin\">throwing his weight<\/a> behind a candidate for Wisconsin\u2019s state supreme court, is far from alone in seeking to build influence at the grassroots.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/05\/billionaires-funding-republicans\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans are relying on \u2018nameless\u2019 donors who want to push a rightwing agenda and gain long-term hegemony Billionaires are increasingly bankrolling Republican candidates in state legislative races across the US to push a rightwing agenda and gain long-term hegemony. The concerted effort shows that Donald Trump ally Elon Musk, currently throwing his weight behind a &#8230; <a title=\"Packed Pacs: how billionaires in the US are bankrolling Republicans at the state level\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/packed-pacs-how-billionaires-in-the-us-are-bankrolling-republicans-at-the-state-level\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Packed Pacs: how billionaires in the US are bankrolling Republicans at the state level\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}