In his third State of the Union address, President Joe Biden on Thursday evening railed against so-called dark money.
Biden, before a joint session of Congress, urged lawmakers to pass legislation that Democrats say would make it easier to vote in elections. Almost 60 years after the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the president barked, Republicans are intent on voter suppression, election subversion, gerrymandering, and, notably, supporting “unlimited dark money.”
That last part could place Biden in a tough spot. His 2020 election was the culmination of Democratic Party-allied nonprofit organizations that don’t disclose their donors spending more than $1.5 billion to prop up his agenda, the New York Times reported. Now, as Biden underperforms in polls against his forthcoming repeat opponent in 2024, former President Donald Trump, dark money is a critical weapon the…
