{"id":8776,"date":"2024-08-01T12:10:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T17:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/08\/01\/nearly-all-funds-paid-to-ted-cruz-tied-pac-through-podcast-deal-have-gone-to-his-reelection-bid\/"},"modified":"2024-08-01T12:10:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T17:10:29","slug":"nearly-all-funds-paid-to-ted-cruz-tied-pac-through-podcast-deal-have-gone-to-his-reelection-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/08\/01\/nearly-all-funds-paid-to-ted-cruz-tied-pac-through-podcast-deal-have-gone-to-his-reelection-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly all funds paid to Ted Cruz-tied PAC through podcast deal have gone to his reelection bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Nearly all the money so far generated by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz&#8217;s controversial podcast-syndication deal with San Antonio-based iHeartMedia has gone to directly support his reelection bid, federal records show. During the current election cycle, Truth and Courage \u2014 a super PAC that receives payments from radio group iHeartMedia as part of the company&#8217;s distribution agreement for The Verdict With Ted Cruz podcast \u2014 spent a total of $712,994 to back the Texas Republican&#8217;s reelection, according to campaign finance filings. The entirety of those funds went to a Los Angeles-based entity called Catamaran Consulting, which used it for signs, canvassing, field operations and printing to back Cruz, records show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly all the money so far generated by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz&#8217;s controversial podcast-syndication deal with San Antonio-based iHeartMedia has gone to directly support his reelection bid, federal records show. During the current election cycle, Truth and Courage \u2014 a super PAC that receives payments from radio group iHeartMedia as part of the company&#8217;s distribution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}