- The crypto lobby has already spent $271 million on the 2026 midterms.
- But that’s only the beginning, experts say.
- Expect more attack ads against political hopefuls this campaign season.
A weird thing happened in Illinois the other day.
The crypto industry took an unexpected swipe at a seemingly innocuous Senate race playing out in the state.
Far from being a firebrand crypto critic like some of her more outspoken Democratic colleagues, Juliana Stratton, the lieutenant governor of Illinois and a candidate in the state’s Democratic Senate primary, has said very little about digital assets.
Until now.
“$7 million,” she said in the 36-second clip on March 3. “That’s how much a MAGA-backed crypto PAC just dumped into attack ads…
