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Trump wouldn’t have won the 2024 election if it weren’t for wealthy donors who sabotaged Kamala Harris’s presidential bid

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Julian Zelizer : Donald Trump's cabinet includes billionaires, former CEOs, tech leaders, and loyalists.

He says big money has always spoken with a loud voice in American politics, but the problem has gotten worse in the neoliberal era that began in the 1970s .

Both political parties have become increasingly beholden to wealthy donors, Zelizer says.

With Cuban as a key surrogate, there was little reason for voters to take her claims to populism seriously.

The elevation of a retrograde figure like Cuban was of a piece with the Harris campaign’s desperate courting of Republican voters.

As a strategy, this solicitude toward anti-Trump Republicans was a total flop.