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A super PAC backed by a crypto billionaire ousted Trump-endorsed Rep. Andy Ogles in Tennessee

8/7/2026

A super PAC, which is a political committee that can raise unlimited outside money for elections without coordinating directly with campaigns, spent roughly $2 million to defeat Republican Rep.

Andy Ogles in a Tennessee primary on Thursday.

The money traces to Chris Larsen, the California-based billionaire chairman of Ripple, a financial technology company operating in the cryptocurrency space, who gave $5,444,975 to support Kamala Harris's presidential campaign.

The winner was Charlie Hatcher, a fifth-generation dairy farmer and Tennessee's former agriculture commissioner.

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