Now the president-elect of the United States was making the hike out to Long Island to pay homage to Mercer. Between the $26 million he had spent on Republican causes, his daughter’s insistence that Trump tap Bannon and Conway to resuscitate his flailing campaign, and Breitbart News’s unflinching support for the Trump campaign, Bob and Rebekah Mercer were among those most responsible for Trump’s shocking victory.2