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Former President Donald Trump s selection ofOhio GOP Sen. JD Vance to be his running mate shows one thing remains constant, even in a presidential race upended by an attempt to assassinate one candidate and doubts about whether the other is fit to run: money in presidential politics stanley cup is still king.Vance, a relative newcomer to national politics, has assiduously courted billionaires and Silicon Valley titans to bankroll his unlikely rise from bestselling memoirist of despair, drugs and generational poverty in Appalachia to a ticket that could seat him a heartbeat away from the presidency. During his rapid rise, he has emerged as an ardent and effective defender of Trump, putting an intellectual gloss on the former president s raw MAGA populism. But Vance may never have been in serious consideration for the No. 2 spot on the ticket had he not won electi stanley cup ve office in a major Rust Belt state in the first place. And big donors, particularly from the tech sector, provid stanley cup ed the rocket fuel he needed to advance in electoral politics. Vance s most prominent benefactor over the years is Peter Thiel, the iconoclastic tech pioneer and investor. Thiel hired Vance at his global investment firm in 2017, and then nurtured Vance s political rise, donating $15 million to his 2022 Ohio Senate campaign and helping him win a closely fought GOP primary before going on to capture the seat in the general election. File: Peter Thiel, co-founder and c Eyzt This Morning from CBS News, Feb. 26, 2015
Political commentator Jeffrey Lord was fired from CNN on Thursday after tweeting an offensive remark -- the words Sieg Heil! -- towards liberal activist Angelo Carusone, according to CNNMoney.Carusone responded to Lord s Nazi reference by saying, Behold! @CNN s resident Trump advocate Jeffrey Lord. At least they aren t trying to to hide anything anymore ... Be yeezy hold! @CNN s resident Trump advocate Jeffrey Lord. At least they aren t trying to to hide anything anymore... pic.twitter/mhO stanley cup 0ngc8uTmdash; Angelo Carusone @GoAnge adidas samba lo August 10, 2017 He later tweeted a statement saying, CNN does not seem to hold Jeffrey Lord to any kind of standard. A bunch of people have asked if Media Matters is calling for Jeffrey Lord to be fired for issuing the Nazi victory salute. Here s my answer: pic.twitter/60DmvwTVWGmdash; Angelo Carusone @GoAngelo August 10, 2017 According to the network, Lord and Carusone -- president of the liberal group Media Matters for America -- have had several disagreements. In a written statement, a CNN spokesperson said, Nazi salutes are indefensible. Jeffrey Lord is no longer with the network. Lord, who is one of CNN s best-known commentators, reacted to the news Thursday saying he respects CNN and its journalists, but disagrees with the network s decision to fire him. He said that he used the phrase as part of a column he wrote for the conservative magazine The American Spectator in which he accused M