An entire panel and parts of some speakers’ speeches focused on electoral corruption at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
An aide to Vivek Ramaswamy alleges that a political consultant with connections to CPAC offered essentially a pay-for-play deal asking for six figures in exchange for the ability to influence the straw poll in the direction of the candidate.
“Basically, they were like, if you pay I think it was upward of $100,000, we can get tickets and bus a bunch of people in for the straw poll,” the senior Ramaswamy campaign official told Politico. “I was taken aback, because I’ve never been to CPAC before, and it’s very activist-driven but I think if any of them knew it was an artificial poll, they’d be pretty pissed about that.”
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Daniel J. Flynn, a senior editor of The American Spectator, is the author of Cult City: Harvey Milk, Jim Jones, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco (ISI Books, 2018), The War on Football (Regnery, 2013), Blue Collar Intellectuals (ISI Books, 2011), A Conservative History of the American Left (Crown Forum, 2008), Intellectual Morons (Crown Forum, 2004), and Why the Left Hates America (Prima Forum, 2002). His articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, New York Post, City Journal, National Review, and his own website, www.flynnfiles.com.
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