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The Future of Ads Is Digital — But Not Quite the Present
The Democratic super PAC Priorities USA launched its first midterm effort with a $50 million campaign focused exclusively online.
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The Democratic super PAC Priorities USA launched its first midterm effort with a $50 million campaign focused exclusively online.
drawn intense criticism this week for the presence of lobbyists and business executives — evidence of the growing influence of the left wing of the Democratic Party that has abstained from corporate PAC
Dan Conston will take over as the president of both American Action Network and its related Super PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund, the groups announced Tuesday.
In partnership with Independence USA PAC, LCV Victory Fund ran ads there featuring Rohrbacher’s statements against images of the wildfires that devastated large swaths of the state this fall.
She plans to refocus and expand her leadership PAC to support women and what she called “nontraditional candidates.”
Rooted in Boston and leaning heavily on a network of financial- and medical-sector donors, Moulton raised more than $6 million through his Serve America PAC, Serve America Victory Fund, and Serve
The second-highest spender was Senate Majority PAC, tied to Senate Democrats led by Charles E. Schumer, which spent $112.8 million.
The group plans to file paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to formally organize the PAC before the end of the year, CNN reported. Despite his loss to Sen.
Kurt Schrader will continue serving as chair of the coalition’s political arm, the Blue Dog PAC.
In mid-October the Congressional Leadership Fund, the super PAC aligned with Republican House leadership, had run Spanish-language ads in more districts than rivals aligned with Democratic House leadership
Just ask Jeb Bush, whose super PAC alone raised more than $110 million for 2016.
She mentioned newly-elected Democrats from Orange County, California, like Katie Porter, Josh Harder and Harley Rouda, all of whom were backed by Jayapal’s recently-formed Medicare-for-all PAC.
House Majority PAC, a Democratic Super PAC, spent $257,000, while its GOP counterpart, the Congressional Leadership Fund, didn’t spend on television but did have a field office in the district.
The anti-PAC class cometh, but K Street has a backup plan.
At the helm of that massive coordination effort, ensuring there was no duplicative spending in any one district at any time, was House Majority PAC, which was led by Charlie Kelly.
During the 2016 campaign cycle, Nielsen had been a loyal Bushie, contributing $2,500 to Jeb’s super PAC, Right to Rise.
Veteran Democratic operative Ali Lapp founded the super PAC in 2011 just after Democrats lost control of the House.
I had a Republican super PAC running against me, trying to paint me as too liberal for the district.”
Congressional Leadership Fund, for example, never invested in Virginia’s 10th District — not because Comstock wasn’t a good incumbent or an ally of leadership, but because the GOP super PAC didn’t see
Those include the Government by the People Act, a campaign finance overhaul measure designed to incentivize small donations; the DISCLOSE Act, a bill to require public disclosure of super PAC donors; the