The same dark-money playbook that elected JD Vance is back, and it's bigger than ever

The same dark-money playbook that elected JD Vance is back, and it's bigger than ever

In 2022, JD Vance won a Senate seat largely thanks to a $10 million Super Pac donation from a California tech billionaire. In 2026, Vivek Ramaswamy is reaching into the same dark-money playbook. It seems that another out-of-state billionaire, Jeff Yass of Philadelphia, has written a $20 million check to Ramaswamy’s PAC fund. That’s on top of a $6 million contribution from Wall Street billionaire Ross Stevens and millions of dollars from others o…