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Opinion: The Two-Party System on a Sick Bed
What gives heft to these threats is Bannon’s financial backer — conservative billionaire super PAC baron Robert Mercer.
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What gives heft to these threats is Bannon’s financial backer — conservative billionaire super PAC baron Robert Mercer.
The California Democrat, who served eight terms in the House, will serve in an advisory role and as a surrogate for the PAC, which aims to pick up seven GOP seats that Democrat presidential nominee
A major GOP super PAC (whose outside money propped up Republican nominee Karen Handel) shot ads in San Francisco to draw attention to donations the first-time Democratic candidate brought in from California
The Republican super PAC backed by House leadership is expanding its field program by opening new offices in six GOP-held districts.
Of course, that didn’t stop this PAC from asking for money. “Sheriff Clarke needs our prayers and vocal support to officially launch his campaign for Senate.
Throughout the primary campaign, the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC backed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, accused Brooks for being insufficiently supportive of Trump.
Trump praised her candidacy in a tweet last week, and one of his key donors contributed $300,000 to a PAC to defeat Flake.
Jeb Fain, a communications adviser at the House Majority PAC, which works to elect Democrats to the House, said that while Ryan might have given some Republican members a pass to vote against the
Brooks chided Strange for having millions of dollars pumped into his campaign by powerful lobbying firms in Washington and the Senate Leadership Fund, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s super PAC
“It’s an opportunity to put a race in play that wasn’t last week,” said Jon Soltz, chairman and co-founder of VoteVets, the Democratic PAC that recruits and supports veterans running for Congress
On the federal level, Krzanich’s contributions have been exclusively to Intel’s PAC. In 2016, the PAC gave $269,853 to House Democratic candidates and incumbents, and $271,999 to Republicans.
Moore has become the latest target of the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
A super PAC aligned with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has spent roughly $4 million on the race, and could spend an additional $4 million on the runoff.
Conservative Utah, a super PAC backing Ainge, has also been active in the race. The group is mainly funded by Ainge’s family.
Aggressively championing the “Citizens United” Supreme Court decision and unbridled super PAC barons like the Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson, McConnell weakened the Republican Party and made it vulnerable
Strange has already received roughly $4 million in outside money from the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC affiliated with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
She is aligned with the Blue Dogs, a group of more conservative Democrats, and chairs the group’s PAC.
Throughout the primary, Brooks was hit with a deluge of ads from the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with McConnell.
A Super PAC known as the Senate Leadership Fund, which is aligned with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, has already spent roughly $4 million on the race to keep Strange in the Senate.
And he’s been hammered in ads from both Strange’s campaign and a super PAC backing Strange for his previous comments against Trump. Brooks supported GOP Sen.