He had MSNBC working overtime for him. He had podcasts, and influencers, and TracAIPAC, and all kinds of spending that isn’t recorded because it isn’t traditional but it all has value. Traditional adverrising has little value in elections, and I think AIPAC hurt Stevens.
The discourse is brokenIt’s been wild watching the goalposts shift to “he was outspent and still won” since El-Sayed did not remotely deliver the expected double-digit win. Money in politics is bad, but also this belief that anyone who didn’t vote for him must be a low-information voter who just saw some ads is bad.