{"id":597557,"date":"2026-05-11T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/crypto-and-ai-could-be-dirty-words-on-2026-midterm-campaign-trail\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:53:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:53:00","slug":"crypto-and-ai-could-be-dirty-words-on-2026-midterm-campaign-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/crypto-and-ai-could-be-dirty-words-on-2026-midterm-campaign-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto and AI could be dirty words on 2026 midterm campaign trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy1pbWFnZXMuY3RtZWRpYS5pby9tZWRpYS9hcnRpY2xlLWNvdmVycy9oaWNlbnN1cmUtb2YtcGF5bWVudHMtc3lzdGVtcy1pcy1pdC1zZXJpb3VzLWNyeXB0by1hcy1zb2x1dGlvbi5qcGc=.jpg\" alt=\"Crypto and AI could be dirty words on 2026 midterm campaign trail\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Voter attitudes toward the AI and crypto industries aren\u2019t favorable in the US, and a spotlight on how much they\u2019re spending could further alienate them ahead of the 2026 midterms.\n<\/p>\n<p>The AI and crypto industries have made headlines over the past year thanks to the impressive war chests amassed by corporate political action committees (PACs).<\/p>\n<p>Profligate spending during the last federal elections in the US has led to unprecedented policy changes favoring the crypto industry, with indications that a full legislative framework in the form of the CLARITY Act is on its way to becoming law.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But this hasn\u2019t endeared the crypto industry to voters. Recent polls from Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/americans-distrust-crypto-ai-as-industry-super-pacs-flood-midterms-poll-finds\"><span>show distrust of the crypto industry<\/span><\/a>, and the electorate isn\u2019t sold on the benefits of AI.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/crypto-and-ai-could-be-dirty-words-on-2026-midterm-campaign-trail\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voter attitudes toward the AI and crypto industries aren\u2019t favorable in the US, and a spotlight on how much they\u2019re spending could further alienate them ahead of the 2026 midterms. The AI and crypto industries have made headlines over the past year thanks to the impressive war chests amassed by corporate political action committees (PACs). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":597558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-597557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}