In competitive elections, campaign funding can be the decisive factor in determining outcomes, as demonstrated by the 2022 Illinois race where veteran Esther Joy King lost to Eric Sorensen by 400 votes because she lacked the resources for a final campaign push, illustrating how even well-qualified candidates can lose when they cannot afford critical final advertising efforts.
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She Lost To The Gay WeathermanAdded:
$32.6 million went towards political ad spending.
It's It's like Do you know how many vulnerable races we can help with that?
It's like probably easy like spitballing off the top of my head six. Do a $5 million in each of them and it makes a difference. Like sometimes it's like that one more broadcast ad you needed, you know, just to to finish line. I remember this in 2022 Esther Joy King in Illinois lost to the gay weatherman Eric Sorensen because she ran short of money and couldn't do one last push and then she lost by like 400 votes. Like that that little boost that little boost. I mean, she literally lost to a man who campaigned about being the gay weatherman. I was the first gay weatherman in America. Like dude, shut up. That was your campaign and and Esther Joy King who is a veteran lost to him because of stuff like this.
>> We saw in the VA redistricting, I mean, the the GOP threw, you know, pennies over in that direction. I live in Virginia. I was getting flooded with Obama ads, etc., etc. Now, they got bailed out by the courts, but I'm not going to sit here and pretend that the GOP was playing 5D chess. No, they weren't. They got lucky.
>> lucky. They got bailed out.
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