Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed — who has built his entire campaign around getting "money out of politics" — is set to attend a fundraiser at the West Hollywood home of billionaire George Soros' nephew, where guests can donate up to $57,800 to his victory fund.
The event will be co-hosted by former Obama advisors and Pod Save America hosts Jon Favreau, Tom Vietor, and Ben Rhodes, alongside Hollywood power players. It comes as El-Sayed has repeatedly railed against the influence of corporations and billionaires in politics, once telling a crowd that billionaires couldn't name anything else they could buy with $100 million other than political power.
El-Sayed's campaign deflected, pointing to Republican opponent Mike Rogers' own Big Pharma donations — but the optics of a "money out of politics" candidate raising funds at a Soros family home in California are hard to square.
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