AGAIN A LITTLE BIT LATER ON IN THE BUT I WANT TO GET YOUR COLLEAGUE, OF COURSE, BECAUSE WHILE THE ILLINOIS DELEGATION HAILS FROM A SOLIDLY BLUE STATE MOST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS THESE DAYS, SOME OF THE STATE'S BIG MONEY DONORS HAVE BEEN ACTIVELY SUPPORTING TRUMP'S RE-ELECTION BID AND A HOST OF OTHER CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATES AND COMMITTEES.

A NEW BLOOMBERG HAS BEEN LOOKING INTO THOSE DONORS AND THE CAUSES THEIR FUNDING.

NICK.

WILL BRAND AS WE HAVE HEARD A LOT FROM THE ILLINOIS DELEGATION TODAY ABOUT THEIR COMMITMENT TO SEEING PRESIDENT TRUMP GET REELECTED.

2 PROMINENT DONORS WITH ILLINOIS TIES ARE SPENDING BIG TO TRY AND MAKE THAT HAPPEN.

RICHARD AND ELIZABETH, YOU LINE ARE BOTH BIG TIME BACKERS OF CONSERVATIVE CAUSES BOTH IN ILLINOIS AND AROUND THE COUNTRY AND THEY ARE CURRENTLY THE SECOND LARGEST DONORS TO THE MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN PAC.

THAT'S WORKING TO GET TRUMP REELECTED.

NOW, THAT'S NOT THE SECOND LARGEST DONORS FROM ILLINOIS.

THAT'S THE SECOND LARGEST DONORS IN THE COUNTRY.

NOW BANKING HEIR TIMOTHY MELLON CURRENTLY HAS THE TOP SLOT WITH 75 MILLION DOLLARS.

BUT TOGETHER, THE EU LINES HAVE GIVEN 10 MILLION DOLLARS TO THAT PATH.

THE LINES ARE LONG TIME LAKE FOREST RESIDENTS WITH PLENTY OF TIES TO WISCONSIN HERE AS WELL.

THEY MOVED THE HEADQUARTERS OF THEIR SHIPPING PACKAGING COMPANY.

YOU LINE UP TO PLEASANT PRAIRIE AND UIHLEIN IS AN HEIR TO THE SCHLITZ BREWING FORTUNE.

NOW WHILE THEY THROWN QUITE A BIT OF MONEY BEHIND PRESIDENT TRUMP, FEDERAL ELECTION RECORDS ALSO SHOW A 3 MILLION DOLLAR DONATION TO A PAC THAT SUPPORTED FLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS IS UNSUCCESSFUL.

PRESIDENTIAL RUN.

YOU OTHER ILLINOIS CANDIDATES.

WHAT OTHER ILLINOIS CANDIDATES HAVE THE SUPPORT IT?

WELL, THEY'VE BEEN SUPPORTERS OF CONGRESSWOMAN MARY MILLER, WHO WE DELIVERING ILLINOIS'S DELEGATES TO FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP.

WE HEARD FROM EARLIER TODAY SAYING THE DARKNESS AROUND THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT WILL ALLOW REPUBLICANS TO SHINE BRIGHT.

ULINE DONATED TO FORMER STATE SENATOR AND GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE KAREN BAILEY'S CANDIDACY LAST YEAR HE RAN IN THE GOP PRIMARY AGAINST CONGRESSMAN MIKE BOST WHO WAS EVENTUALLY THE WINNER OF THAT PRIMARY BOSS ACTUALLY TIPPED HIS HAT TO DAILY TO BAILEY, RATHER AT THE DELEGATION BREAKFAST EARLIER TODAY SAYING THE FORMER OPPONENTS ARE NOW WORKING SHOULDER TO SHOULDER TO DEFEAT PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN IN THE 2014 ELECTION.

GOING BACK A FEW YEARS.

THE EU LINE SUPPORTED FORMER GOVERNOR BRUCE RAUNER IS EVENTUALLY SUCCESSFUL BID THAT IN 2018 BACK TO HIS GOP PRIMARY CHALLENGER STATE REP JEANNE IVES ALL TOLD ILLINOIS ELECTION RECORDS SHOW 92 MILLION DOLLARS IN DONATIONS TO CANDIDATES AND COMMITTEES AROUND THE STATE SINCE 1998.

AND NIC, WHO ARE SOME OF THE OTHER PROMINENT DONORS FROM ILLINOIS.

WELL, THERE'S ONE NOTABLE FORMER ILLINOIS RESIDENT WHO IS STILL LISTED AS COMING FROM OUR FAIR STATE IN SOME OF HIS FEDERAL ELECTION DONATION RECORDS THAT WOULD BE CITADEL CEO KEN GRIFFIN WHO MOVED HIS COMPANY TO FLORIDA AND HAS HAD PLENTY OF CRITICISMS OF DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL LEADERS IN ILLINOIS AND CHICAGO AT LAST COUNT RECORDS SHOW GRIFFIN CONTRIBUTING NEARLY 60 MILLION DOLLARS TO CANDIDATES AND COMMITTEES THIS CYCLE.

BUT HIS MONEY ISN'T GOING TOWARD ILLINOIS.

HE'S MADE A 10 MILLION DOLLAR DONATIONS APIECE TO U.S. SENATE CANDIDATES, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES IN MARYLAND AND PENNSYLVANIA AND HE GAVE 6 MILLION DOLLARS TO A PAC THAT OPPOSED ONE OF THE CONGRESSMEN WHO VOTED TO UNSEAT FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER KEVIN MCCARTHY.

GRIFFIN ALSO MADE A $6600 DONATION TO THE SUCCESSFUL U.S. SENATE BID OF NEBRASKA'S PETE RICKETTS, WHO IS, OF COURSE, A PART OF THE FAMILY THAT OWNS THE CHICAGO CUBS.

AND OF COURSE, THOSE ARE ALL SOME VERY A FAMILIAR POLITICS AND IN BECAUSE THOSE ARE, OF COURSE, SOME HEAVY HITTERS IN TERMS OF DONATIONS.

NICK, WHAT ABOUT SOME OF THE SMALLER DONORS WHO ARE GIVING DIRECTLY TO THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEES RATHER THAN THE PAST?

THAT'S RIGHT.

BRANDS.

WE ANALYZED FEDERAL ELECTION RECORDS OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS TO TRUMP AND PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN'S OFFICIAL CANDIDATE COMMITTEES.

NOW, WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THAT THE VOLUME OF INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS TO TRUMP'S COMMITTEE FAR OUT TO SEA EXCEEDS THOSE TO BIDEN MORE THAN 92,000 TO TRUMP COMPARED TO 26,000 TO BIDEN.

WHICH SOUNDS SURPRISING RIGHT?

BUT YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THE ACTUAL AMOUNTS THEY'RE DONATING.

THERE'S A BIG DISPARITY THERE.

MORE THAN 26,000 OF THOSE DONATIONS TO TRUMP WERE UNDER A DOLLAR AT LAST CHECK.

ONLY 50 ILLINOIS RESIDENTS GIVEN TRUMP $3300 OR MORE.

3300 BEING THE LIMIT UNDER FEDERAL LAW THAT YOU CAN DONATE TO A CANDIDATE PER ELECTION CYCLE.

NOW, COMPARE THAT TO THE 570 TO ILLINOIS WHO HAVE GIVEN BIDEN 3300 OR MORE OVERALL TRUMP'S COMMITTEE HAS TAKEN IN 3.7 MILLION DOLLARS FROM ILLINOIS COMPARED TO 5.8 MILLION DOLLARS TO BIDEN.

BUT BRAND IS IF THERE IS ONE POLITICAL PREDICTION, I FEEL CONFIDENT MAKING EVEN PUT DOWN A $10 BET IS THAT THOSE NUMBERS ARE GOING TO GROW QUITE A BIT AS THIS ELECTION KICKS INTO EVEN HIGHER GEAR.

THINK YOU HAVE A LOT OF TAKERS FOR THAT ALL RIGHT, NICK, THANK YOU SO IT WAS IT IS WORTH A SHOT.

I APPRECIATED.

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