Who are the groups backing candidates in the midterms – and why? Joseph Gedeon, Dara Kerr and Chris Stein answered your questions

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Nola67 asks Alex Vindman had $16 million fundraised during his losing campaign against Angie Nixon [to be the Democrat’s Senate nominee in Florida]. Will he be giving that money to Nixon now, and is she getting more funding help from the national Democratic Party?

Joseph: Our understanding is that he’s using his sizeable war chest to boost Democrats across the country, and to the Florida Democratic state party, though not Nixon herself. He announced back in August that he’d be sending $250k to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign committee and candidates like Abdul El Sayed in Michigan, Troy Jackson in Maine, Roy Cooper in North Carolina, Sherrod Brown in Ohio, Charles Booker in Kentucky, and more.

In Florida, he says he invested $400k to the state democratic party, though not directly to Nixon herself. It seems like the Senate Majority PAC, led by Chuck Schumer and meant to boost Democrats to the Senate, are steering clear of Nixon’s campaign – it seems they don’t find that one winnable, and don’t want to put the investment into it.

Dara: Theoretically AI could be used for recovering debt for investors for the government, but given the mistakes and bias the technology still has it would likely need human oversight for this work. It’s more feasible that AI will be used as a tool to help identify trends and organize material, but then people would have to direct this work and keep tabs on the technology to ensure all rules and regulations are being followed.