Coinbase-backed Stand With Crypto named its first three Senate endorsements two weeks after the Clarity Act failed 49-50. The group funds no campaigns itself, so its main Ohio pick depends on PAC money, starting with Fairshake's $30 million pledge for Jon Husted against Sherrod Brown.
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives75
- Confidence65
The crypto super PAC is spending $30 million in Ohio over six weeks, about a quarter of the $120.4 million it and its affiliates reported on September 20. The target is a Senate Banking gavel that Democratic caucus rules do not automatically restore.
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- Builder 12%
- Operator
- Operator 50%
- Investor
- Investor 38%
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- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives60
- Confidence62
Ahead of Tuesday's cloture vote the White House is answering bank lobbyists with a scenario tool, while Fairshake's $30 million to Democrats is already spent and Republicans including John Cornyn weigh a no.
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- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives82
- Confidence55
Crypto, AI and betting firms are behind record corporate election spending, and Trump is adding a $400 million super PAC. The CLARITY Act still needs 60 Senate votes.
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- Evidence30
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives72
- Confidence28
Public Citizen counts $517 million of corporate spending on House and Senate races in 15 months, with crypto, tech and gaming supplying at least $294 million of it.
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- Evidence38
- Adoption68
- Hype gap+26
- Incentives76
- Confidence42
Crypto's PACs spent about $3.6 million on Tuesday's primaries. More than half of it went into attack ads in a single Miami district, and that is the race they lost.
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- Builder 10%
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- Operator 30%
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- Investor 60%
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- Evidence72
- Adoption76
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives68
- Confidence70