{"id":615070,"date":"2026-06-16T19:52:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/crypto-pac-has-12m-stake-in-senate-primary-runoff-as-alabama-voters-head-to-polls\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T19:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:52:54","slug":"crypto-pac-has-12m-stake-in-senate-primary-runoff-as-alabama-voters-head-to-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/crypto-pac-has-12m-stake-in-senate-primary-runoff-as-alabama-voters-head-to-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto PAC has $12M stake in Senate primary runoff as Alabama voters head to polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defend American Jobs reported spending $7.4 million on media to support Republican Barry Moore ahead of his May 20 Alabama primary, and an additional $4.7 million before Tuesday\u2019s runoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Defend American Jobs, the cryptocurrency company-backed political action committee (PAC) affiliated with Fairshake, reported spending millions of dollars to support a Republican candidate\u2019s run for a US Senate seat in the party\u2019s Tuesday primary runoff in Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday, filings with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) showed that Defend American Jobs had spent more than $4.7 million on media and ads to back Republican Barry Moore\u2019s candidacy in a runoff for one of Alabama\u2019s US Senate seats, adding to the $7.4 million it reported spending ahead of his May 20 primary. Moore, who also has the endorsement of US President Donald Trump, is running against Jared Hudson, another Republican vying to replace Tommy Tuberville, who announced that he would not be seeking reelection, as he is focused on becoming the state\u2019s next governor.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Federal Election Commission<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/crypto-pac-fairshake-senate-primary-alabama-voters?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_medium&amp;utm_campaign=rss_feed_medium\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defend American Jobs reported spending $7.4 million on media to support Republican Barry Moore ahead of his May 20 Alabama primary, and an additional $4.7 million before Tuesday\u2019s runoffs. Defend American Jobs, the cryptocurrency company-backed political action committee (PAC) affiliated with Fairshake, reported spending millions of dollars to support a Republican candidate\u2019s run for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-615070","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\/615070","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=615070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}