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Ken Paxton: “McCain Feingold...did, but only on the challenger side…”

Featuring: Ken Paxton, Republican | Attorney General of Texas

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The fundraising thing is the biggest scam that most Americans don't know about. Yeah. John McCain set up this bill. It was called McCain Feingold. To get money out of politics. Well, it did, McCain Feingold...did, but only on the challenger side, because they have unlimited. I'm limited to $3,500 for the primary from anyone, which is really hard to raise enough money to put a commercial on TV at that level. Right. (01:15–01:21)

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Asserts that the McCain-Feingold Act limited campaign financing only for challengers, not incumbents.

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