How Corruption Finally Became A Winning Issue For Democrats In The Trump Era

HuffPost · Kevin Robillard, Dave Jamieson · 2026-11-05 11:00 UTC

Trump’s outrageous corruption gave Democrats an opportunity to link the GOP’s bad behavior to higher prices for consumers.

Whenever Christina Bohannan, a Democratic law professor who was running in Iowa’s 1st Congressional District, knocked on a door while campaigning, she would leave more than just your standard campaign literature behind.

She would always include a letter, signed by hand, with a host of promises: a stock-trading ban for members of Congress. Working to reverse the Citizens United decision. Age caps for members of Congress, a ban on pay to members during government shutdowns and barring members from buying first-class plane tickets with taxpayer money. A code of ethics for the Supreme Court.

“It’s time we put our Constitution over corruption, and people over corporations. I support term limits and tough ethics reform,” the letter reads. “I take no corporate PAC money and never will.”

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