The 2022 midterm elections remain over a year away, but already Peter Thiel, the famed billionaire tech investor, early supporter of Facebook and PayPal, and high-profile endorser of Donald Trump, is making his political preferences known.
In the first few months of 2021, Thiel has already given $10 million apiece to super PACs sponsoring Republican Senate candidates Blake Masters in Arizona and J.D. Vance in Ohio. That’s a gargantuan amount of money for a Senate primary, especially over a year before Election Day. And though Thiel’s conservative politics have been infamous since he endorsed Donald Trump in 2016, the financial commitment thus far exceeds his largest single commitment to Trump’s cause by a factor of eight. Each.
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