--Money in politics is as old as politics itself. While some Democratic partisans like to imagine this doesn't happen on the left, the philanthropy and campaign donations of large liberal donors like Google, George Soros or General Electric just happen to coincide with their business interests. And a look at the electoral and business ambitions of President Donald Trump's largest political donors, hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, reveals an incredible amount of intersection.Like big-time conservative donor Cary Katz (who as part of a little-known...…--Money in politics is as old as politics itself. While some Democratic partisans like to imagine this doesn't happen on the left, the philanthropy and campaign donations of large liberal donors like Google, George Soros or General Electric just happen to coincide with their business interests. And a look at the electoral and business ambitions of President Donald Trump's largest political donors, hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, reveals an incredible amount of intersection.Like big-time conservative donor Cary Katz (who as part of a little-known...WW…

✕Nearly 70 percent of those polled in a new survey say they would oppose President Trump declaring an emergency to build a wall on the Mexican border.Sixty-nine percent of those surveyed in The Hill-HarrisX survey conducted Jan. 12-13 said they do not want the president to designate the border a national emergency site. Just 31 percent of respondents said they wanted such a declaration.Trump has been flirting with the declaration to get the wall built and end a partial government shutdown that on Saturday became the longest such closure in U.S. history. The president has given...…✕Nearly 70 percent of those polled in a new survey say they would oppose President Trump declaring an emergency to build a wall on the Mexican border.Sixty-nine percent of those surveyed in The Hill-HarrisX survey conducted Jan. 12-13 said they do not want the president to designate the border a national emergency site. Just 31 percent of respondents said they wanted such a declaration.Trump has been flirting with the declaration to get the wall built and end a partial government shutdown that on Saturday became the longest such closure in U.S. history. The president has given...WW…