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Behind the Bastards

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The Importance of Spending Money on Campaigns

Beto O'Rourke raised $77 million to lose, but lost by that much. A few years earlier, Lupe Valdez ran against Greg Abbott and raise like $2 million and lost by 13 points. So $75 million may have bought Beto 2%. Uh, you know, if you assume that national trends had nothing to do with that gap closing by a tiny amount,. With $75 million, I could take control of a moderately sized Texas city. Like, yeah, that's our goal here at Cool Zone Media. To own Fort Worth. Yeah. Let's get Lucifer as well.

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