"One Vote Away": Ted Cruz's campaign team may have spent $ 153,000 on his book

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Ted Cruz: The Texas Senator's campaign team apparently bought a lot of copies of his book "One Vote Away"

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In the months after the publication of the book "One Vote Away" by the Texan Senator Ted Cruz, his campaign team is said to have spent a lot of money: According to the US magazine "Forbes", the retailer Books-a-million copies are worth more than Bought $ 153,000.

The magazine refers to records of the Federal Election Commission, in German "Federal Election Commission".

According to Forbes, a financial statement submitted by him also shows that Cruz received almost $ 320,000 in advance from Regenery Publishing in 2020.

The publisher has published Cruz 'latest book "One Vote Away: How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History" at the end of September 2020 in the USA. Two weeks later, the Republican's team, according to the report, spent $ 40,000 on Books-a-Million. That emerges from the corresponding year-end report. On October 30, the team made a second purchase from this dealer - this time for $ 1,500. And in early December, $ 111,900 is said to have been spent at Books-a-Million. In the financial reports, according to Forbes, all three purchases are simply referred to as "books." According to Forbes, the team could have tried to boost sales of the books.

A spokesman told Forbes that Cruz did not receive any profits in connection with book sales on his last publication.

The spokesman therefore declined to indicate which books the campaign had bought.

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