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Anti-Lobbyist 2020 Dems Throw Support to Lobbyist Challenging Lindsey Graham via @freebeacon freebeacon.com/politics/anti-…
Many Democratic presidential candidates who vowed to reject lobbyist money from their campaigns were quick to throw their support behind Democrat Jaime Harrison, a well-connected former corporate lobbyist running to unseat Republican senator Lindsey Graham in South Carolina.
He began his career working for Rep. Jim Clyburn (D., S.C.) but left in 2008 to join the now-shuttered Podesta Group, at the time a Democratic lobbying powerhouse where he advanced the interests of coal companies, tobacco companies, and casinos.
Harrison's clients over the years included Wells Fargo and Bank of America, private equity firms Avenue Capital and Berkshire Hathaway, and pharmaceutical giants like Novo Nordisk and Merck. Over the years he also represented Walmart, BP, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Google.
