{"id":9069,"date":"2024-09-06T14:09:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T19:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/09\/06\/super-pac-funded-by-ted-cruzs-podcast-deal-gave-1-million-to-back-his-campaign\/"},"modified":"2024-09-06T14:09:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T19:09:57","slug":"super-pac-funded-by-ted-cruzs-podcast-deal-gave-1-million-to-back-his-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/09\/06\/super-pac-funded-by-ted-cruzs-podcast-deal-gave-1-million-to-back-his-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Super PAC funded by Ted Cruz&#8217;s podcast deal gave $1 million to back his campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Despite U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz&#8217;s prior statements that he has no direct involvement with a super PAC funded by a distribution deal for his podcast, federal records show that same PAC is bankrolling his campaign&#8217;s field operations. Truth and Courage PAC \u2014 an entity partially funded by a deal Cruz struck with San Antonio-based radio company iHeartMedia to carry his podcast \u2014 shelled out $1 million in the second quarter to pay for door knocking and phone banking by the Texas Republican&#8217;s reelection campaign. The expenditures, paid to political consulting group Catamaran Consulting, were recorded in Truth and Courage&#8217;s Sept. 4 filing with the Federal Election Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz&#8217;s prior statements that he has no direct involvement with a super PAC funded by a distribution deal for his podcast, federal records show that same PAC is bankrolling his campaign&#8217;s field operations. Truth and Courage PAC \u2014 an entity partially funded by a deal Cruz struck with San Antonio-based radio [&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\/9069"}],"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=9069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}