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Updated March 2: The Congressional Leadership Fund, the super PAC with ties to House Republican leadership, is launching a million-dollar ad campaign targeting Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff in the 6th District's
A Democratic super PAC is targeting two GOP senators up for re-election in 2018, urging them to back an independent investigation into President Donald Trump's ties to Russia.
The PAC will connect Ossoff's campaign with local volunteers — it has 40,000 members in the Atlanta area — and activate its national donors, ensuring "he has the resources to win," according to a statement
Craig, who is forming the PAC targeting Chaffetz, said it did not bother her that the group might end up supporting candidates who did not share her "classic liberal" beliefs.
"The idea that suddenly there's a big liberal movement there that could take the congressman out is absurd," said Shields, a veteran of the Republican National Committee and, most recently, a super PAC
Now Kander has joined up with Priorities USA, the largest pro-Clinton super PAC.
She lives in Alexandria with her husband (the new executive director of House Majority PAC) and their two young sons. “She’s one of the real talents on our side of the aisle,” Warner added.
The Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC allied with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, made a similar comparison when it attacked Montana Democrat Jon Tester for voting against a waiver to allow
“There’s not necessarily direct correlation between our PAC support and caucus membership,” he said.
According to the same 2014 survey, 95 percent of GOP donors hadn’t heard of Value in Electing Women PAC (VIEW PAC), one of the main groups on the right that works to elect Republican women to Congress
In one of the most brutal ads of the 2016 elections, House Majority PAC suggested Garrett’s views aligned better with Alabama than with New Jersey, where his district includes both rural areas in the West
He also benefited from a super PAC largely funded by his father, Indiana Jobs Now, which spent about $1.5 million getting him through the five-person primary in May and the general election.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee put her on its Red to Blue list for competitive candidates and House Majority PAC — the super PAC dedicated to elected Democrats to the House — spent
“A lot of people don’t see much difference between making a contribution to a super PAC backing one candidate and making a contribution to a candidate directly.”
His email list started receiving messages from him on behalf of Principled PAC, which, as he described it, supported “pro-liberty candidates” running for House and Senate.
But for one PAC created this cycle to elect Democrats at the federal level, this year’s election results may actually validate support for their mission: getting big money out of politics.
That drew a counterattack from Justin Barasky, Brown’s 2012 communications director who now holds the same position with progressive PAC Priorities USA.
It was a “hold year,” said Jennifer Higgins, the chairwoman of congressional outreach for RightNow Women PAC, which supports female Republican candidates.
And yet, Priorities USA, the Clinton super PAC that aired its sole House ad in Blum’s district, made Trump the focus of its attack.
Hillary Clinton’s super PAC, Priorities USA, came into the district late last month with its only House ad of the cycle to give Democrats a boost.