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On Friday, a progressive group started a petition calling on elected Democrats to give up campaign contributions from Jared Kushner and others associated with President Donald Trump’s administration. The petition by CREDO Action focused on Sen. Corey Booker, D-NJ, who the group said accepted $23,400 in campaign contributions from Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, White House senior advisers who also happen to be the president’s son-in-law and daughter.

But Booker isn’t alone. A variety of other Democratic officials have taken campaign contributions from Kushner and the Trump family in recent years. That decades-long stream of campaign cash from the first family to the Democrats highlights just how recently the Trumps and Kushner have started to embraced conservative causes and candidates.

Kushner, who is under fire for meeting a Kremlin-linked Russian banker in December, has almost exclusively given his political donations to Democrats. Kushner has contributed $134,700 to federal candidates’ campaigns, and outside of $3,000 that an 18-year-old Kushner donated to Rudy Giuliani's aborted 2000 Senate bid, none of that money went to Republicans, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. But $10,400 of it did go to Cory Booker’s 2014 Senate campaign. Kushner also gave to New York Sens. Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer, as well as New Jersey senator Robert Menendez before 2004.

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