Total Wine Founder’s $2.4 Billion Family Wealth Fuels Senate Run
David Trone is adopting the same aggressive playbook for his US Senate bid as he used in turning Total Wine into the country’s largest independent alcohol retailer.
A Total Wine store in Everett, Massachusetts.
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US Representative David Trone often boasts that he doesn’t take money from corporations or super PACs. It helps that he doesn’t need to.
The Maryland Democrat, who’s running for the Senate seat being vacated by Ben Cardin, is co-owner of Total Wine & More, an alcohol retail empire worth an estimated $2.4 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which is valuing the business for the first time.