How This MAGA Extremist Hides His Campaign Spending

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Republican congressional candidate Joe Kent has tried to distance himself from a problematic adviser’s white nationalist ties. But the money trail suggests not only that the two men remain tight, but that they’re so close that the relationship may have crossed into a forbidden form of political incest.

A Daily Beast analysis of filings with the Federal Election Commission found potential overlap in payments between the Kent campaign and a super PAC that has backed his candidacy in both the 2022 and 2024 election cycles. Federal law bars such groups from coordinating.

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