TEN MONTHS AFTER SENATE ELECTION LOSS, SARA GIDEON STILL HAS $10 MILLION IN UNUSED CAMPAIGN FUNDS – By Nathan Bernard (The Intercept) / Sept 14 2021
The Maine Democrat used her 2020 U.S. Senate campaign to enrich the political establishment, and now she’s reaping the benefits.
HOURS BEFORE CONCEDING to Republican incumbent Susan Collins on Election Day 2020, Sara Gideon’s U.S. Senate campaign blasted out multiple urgent fundraising pleas to its email list.
“We still need your support in order to keep our digital ads running until the minute the polls close,” one email read. “Rush your final contribution to Sara Gideon’s campaign right now.”
A month later, campaign finance reports revealed that Gideon had almost $15 million in unused campaign cash on Election Day, even after spending almost $63 million by that point.
“Elections are unpredictable, and campaigns plan for a number of different outcomes and scenarios at any given point,” Maeve Coyle, Gideon’s spokesperson, said at the time, addressing the ethics of the campaign’s last-minute fundraising requests while having a surplus of cash on hand. “That planning involves ensuring that the campaign has the resources it might need for any number of potential outcomes.”
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