Gambling interests are placing their bets in Virginia, making campaign contributions in the high-stakes 2025 election. And most of the money is going to one side.
“They’re betting on the Democrats winning,” says Alex Keena at Virginia Commonwealth University.
He points out that the Sports Betting Alliance has given more than $2 million to Democrats and less than a quarter of that amount to Republicans.
“They spend to members of both parties, but they don’t want to pick the wrong side by investing in opponents of people who are powerful. And so that kind of tells you that they are expecting the Democrats to win.”
Jennifer Victor at George Mason University points out that the Sports Betting Alliance is based in Texas.
