It would be great to get money out of politics, but that's not the way things are. The game must be played as it is if we are to improve the rules to be more fair and less corrupting. Current law is political money = free speech.

Wealth and power have always had that privilege. It's the very basis on which America was founded. Though it didn't originate in America, and predates it.

Over the centuries we've done minor things to ameliorate it. To whit those with wealth and power have rigged it back twice as hard. As long as capitalism goes unpunished however. That's not going to change.

This doesn't take into account how close he came to beating her in the last election. Or, at least there's no mention of it in your comment which suggests that it wasn't taken into account.