By the middle of 2018, Bob and Rebekah Mercer were pulling back from politics. The Mercers had broken with Bannon soon after he was quoted making a critical comment about Trump’s family, leaving the Mercers without a political consigliere. In the lead-up to the 2018 midterm elections, Mercer made just under $6 million in disclosed political contributions, down from almost $10 million in the previous midterm elections in 2014, and over $25 million in 2016. “They’ve fallen off the grid,” a leading member of the conservative movement said of the Mercers in late 2018. “We don’t hear much from
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Or they’re hiding their contributions better?
