Living in northern Virginia, there were so many ads, you were like, 'What in the hell is going on?' There are all these anti-trans ads every time you turn on the TV," Psaki explained. "It was the majority. I looked this up because I was curious. 57% of all of the money spent by both the campaign for Winsome Sears as well as the outside groups was on anti-trans ads.
Khan has been an ally of Mamdani's, praising him in a New York Times op-ed about his outreach to small business owners. But her appointment to a formal role on his transition team sends a message to Wall Street and the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist who ruffled the feathers of the tech elite by criticizing billionaires and proposing a 2% tax of incomes over $1 million.
Ontario's Progressive Conservatives outspent their opponents during last winter's provincial election by more than $6 million, but one of their nearest rivals says the governing party had a massive head start because of its use of taxpayer-funded advertising months ahead of the snap vote. The election spending figures come from mandatory filings more than six months after the writ period. Premier Doug Ford called the winter election seeking a new mandate to address U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threats and cruised to a third-straight majority government in February.
