Understanding Money and Special Interests in Elections

From super PACs offering cash giveaways to voters to anonymous big-money attack ads, the use of dark money in elections has become disturbingly common. Often nearly impossible to trace, dark money has allowed powerful groups to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into influencing elections while obscuring the sources of their funding.  Join Democracy Fellows Trevor Potter (President, Campaign Legal Center; Former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission) and Brenda Abdelall (Former Deputy Director, Arab American Outreach Biden-Harris Campaign) to discuss the power of money in elections and the consequences uncontrolled spending can have on democracy.