Elections
DraftKings, Meta, AI Firms Have a New Election Playbook: Flood State-Level Races With Cash
With Congress largely stalemated, companies turn to states to gain leverage over regulations.
Rusty Glover, an Alabama Republican state senate candidate accustomed to bare-bones political campaigns, this year is facing an onslaught of advertisements on video streaming services attacking him as a greedy “career politician.”
A group funded by sports gambling companies FanDuel and DraftKings poured more than $2.2 million into ads to defeat Glover, a gambling opponent, in a suburban Mobile district with fewer than 150,000 residents, according to ad analytics company AdImpact. The same group also barraged the district with more than a dozen mailers and a wave of anti-Glover phone calls.