{"id":639404,"date":"2026-08-05T17:52:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/crypto-backed-michigan-house-incumbent-loses-primary-despite-2m-pac-support\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T17:52:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:52:59","slug":"crypto-backed-michigan-house-incumbent-loses-primary-despite-2m-pac-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/crypto-backed-michigan-house-incumbent-loses-primary-despite-2m-pac-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto-backed Michigan House incumbent loses primary despite $2M PAC support"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Crypto-backed<\/p>\n

A Midwest Democratic primary that raised accusations of payback from the cryptocurrency industry ended with the unseating of two-term incumbent Shri Thanedar.<\/p>\n

Michigan State Representative Donavan McKinney won a Democratic primary against incumbent House Representative Shri Thanedar in a race that raised accusations of payback by the cryptocurrency industry.<\/p>\n

McKinney won<\/a> the primary for Michigan\u2019s 13th Congressional District with 51.9% of the vote against Thanedar\u2019s 48.1% as of Wednesday, the New York Times reported. The primary saw a cryptocurrency-backed political action committee (PAC) spending more than $2 million<\/a> on media in an attempt to re-elect Thanedar, who has voted in favor of many bills favoring the industry while in Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Election results for Democratic primary in Michigan\u2019s 13th congressional district. Source: <\/em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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A Midwest Democratic primary that raised accusations of payback from the cryptocurrency industry ended with the unseating of two-term incumbent Shri Thanedar. Michigan State Representative Donavan McKinney won a Democratic primary against incumbent House Representative Shri Thanedar in a race that raised accusations of payback by the cryptocurrency industry. McKinney won the primary for Michigan\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":639405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-639404","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\/639404","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=639404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}