Why We Don't Know Who's Funding the Republican Convention

Jul 18, 2016, 10:12 AM

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When the Republican National Convention begins in Cleveland on Monday, it will be the first time in four decades that a major political party's nominating convention is underwritten nearly exclusively with private cash—funneled in from the same billionaires, corporate lobbyists and Super PACs whose influence over politics Trump has enthusiastically lambasted from the stump.