.......”what kind of a fool spends $8mm of your own money to run for the US House. What a jerk!”.......
They consider it an investment for their future payoff....years of it if their lucky.
Congress is more like a Large Investment Firm...with payouts depending on where you place those bets.
They usually don’t have that much money going in, so donars donate for special favors to get ‘them’ in with the in crowd.
There’s enormous amounts of money to make in Congress.
He didn’t spend $8 million of his own money. I don’t know where that is coming from, it is fake news. The national Dems anointed this guy over the other 4 Dems in the race and poured tons of money into his campaign. He is not independently wealthy.