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Robert Mercer threw the family's money behind Trump's outsider candidacy quite early in the 2016 race. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Inside The Wealthy Family That Has Been Funding Steve Bannon's Plan For Years · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:ffb6253991ab9caddc30a37c8fe5ff1a6ac3e23b6347c4862e4b3115306887a9

So he was going to throw the family's money behind anybody that he thought could beat Hillary Clinton. And he became convinced quite early that it would take a certain kind of candidate to beat Clinton, an outsider.