15 billionaires have donated to the Lincoln Project, a super-PAC led by former Republican consultants trying to defeat Donald Trump in November
first gave to the group in January. She donated another $10,000 in July, bringing her total contributions to $40,000. The Lincoln Project raised $39.4 million between July and September, according to filings. At least 3% of that came from billionaires. In total, the Lincoln Project has raised $58 million this year.
The super-PAC started in late 2019, launched by a group of former Republican strategists who once worked for the likes of John McCain, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. It has focused on turning Republican voters away from Trump and provoking the president with viral ads and social media posts. Their ad called “Mourning In America,” a riff on the famous Ronald Reagan campaign commercial from the 1980s, became an early viral hit, sending Trump on a Twitter
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