@huffpost: After years of a stop-and-start effort to make President Donald Trump’s corruption a signature political issue, Democrats took advantage of the president’s ostentatious self-dealing — a gifted plane from Qatar, $1.4 billion in cryptocurrency earnings, nearly 29,000 presidential stock trades and multiple pardons handed out to political donors — to put corruption under the spotlight in their campaigns. “The issue is front-and-center because the administration has made it front-and-center,” said Brian Lemek, the executive director of Defend The Vote, which has encouraged Democrats to link corruption and the cost of living. “They’ve effectively brought the realities of corruption to the masses.” The result was an unprecedented wave, with Democrats from Maine to Mississippi slamming their opponents as part of a broken political system en route to massive gains in both chambers of Congress and historic wins at the state level. The key for Democrats was linking the issue to the rising costs Americans believe are sinking their economic futures, arguing that the millions donated to political campaigns by lobbyists, billionaires, and corporations directly lead to policies that benefit the politically connected more than everyday people. Read more at our link above.

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Friday 06 November 2026 16:41:38 GMT