With outside groups factored in, Democratic spending in the presidential campaign has reached nearly $400 million for the final month of the race, compared with nearly $200 million in Republican spending, according to Advertising Analytics. (Check out our visual comparison of the Biden and Trump spending.) Future Forward is backed by a Rolodex of influential Silicon Valley donors, according to records filed today with the Federal Election Commission, and first reported by Recode. The team behind Future Forward has a background in data-driven television advertising. The effort was known as “the optimizer,” as my colleague Jim Rutenberg wrote in 2013.

Source: New York Times October 20, 2020 23:31 UTC