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Wall Street ’24 Bets & Chris Christie’s Cornermen

Inside dish on the latest presidential dark-money shenanigans and G.O.P. donor games as the first major fundraising quarter draws to a close.

Several major Democratic givers view supporting Chris Christie’s super PAC as a cost-effective anti-Trump strategy. Photo: Paul Morigi/Getty Images
Theodore Schleifer
June 27, 2023

The end of the presidential fundraising quarter is on Friday, and candidates have been all-out sprinting to pad their numbers before the deadline. Next month, first on the 15th and then on the 30th, we’ll get the first looks at the scale of the big-money machine behind Ron DeSantis; just how much Larry Ellison has put behind Tim Scott; whether there is any actual donor enthusiasm behind Joe Biden; and much more. I find the first major filing deadline to be one of the most fun days of the presidential calendar, offering peeks behind the curtain at how politics really works.