{"id":3295,"date":"2026-06-22T04:09:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T04:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3295"},"modified":"2026-06-22T04:09:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T04:09:56","slug":"conservatives-spent-heavily-in-key-democratic-primaries-filings-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3295","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives spent heavily in key Democratic primaries, filings show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div> <div>\n<button>\n<strong>\n<span><svg>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span>Summary<\/span>\n<\/strong>\n<span><svg><\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span><svg><\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<\/button>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Federal Election Commission filings revealed that a conservative nonprofit funded super PACs with liberal-sounding names that spent heavily in key Democratic nominating contests.<\/li>\n<li>The group spent hundreds of thousands of dollars boosting candidates seen as weaker general election contenders in House races across multiple states.<\/li>\n<li>Conservative Americans PAC acknowledged the strategy, saying Republicans are responding after years of Democrats intervening in GOP primaries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<span>AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            An influential conservative nonprofit covertly funded a series of super PACs with names suggesting liberal provenance as the groups injected hundreds of thousands of dollars into key nominating Democratic contests across the country.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3283\">What the Iran war cost the Pentagon, the economy \u2014 and Trump<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            A new round of Federal Election Commission filings Saturday confirmed national Democrats\u2019 suspicions that Lead Left PAC, Real Change PAC and Blue California PAC were purposefully boosting candidates perceived as weaker contenders in a general election in hopes of engineering more favorable matchups for Republicans.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In the most striking example, Lead Left PAC spent more than $750,000 on advertisements in the Democratic primary in Texas\u2019 35th District, according to AdImpact data, boosting Maureen Galindo, a sex therapist and housing advocate whose use of antisemitic tropes in criticizing Israel drew national attention and widespread condemnation from members of both parties. Galindo denied that her remarks are antisemitic.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cShe\u2019s the only candidate who will stop Trump and ICE,\u201d says one of the group\u2019s ads \u2013 which ultimately proved unsuccessful, as Galindo lost in the primary runoff by nearly 30 points to Johnny Garcia.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Despite the group\u2019s name and messaging, filings show that Lead Left PAC received more than $3 million in May from Conservative Americans PAC \u2014 itself funded by American Prosperity Alliance, the influential Republican nonprofit with ties to former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<header>\n<span>\n      Related article\n    <\/span>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Maureen Galindo, left, participate in a forum held by the League of Women Voters of the San Antonio Area, alongside fellow candidate Johnny Garcia, in the Sidney Board Room at Brooks in San Antonio on May 6.\" class=\"wp-image-3290\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/986711f5b9c04fb117f64b8791a013e7.jpg\" width=\"256\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Maureen Galindo, left, participate in a forum held by the League of Women Voters of the San Antonio Area, alongside fellow candidate Johnny Garcia, in the Sidney Board Room at Brooks in San Antonio on May 6.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Katina Zentz\/San Antonio Express-News\/Getty Images<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n<span>Democrat rebuked by party for antisemitic remarks will lose Texas House runoff<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div>5  min read<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            In a statement, Conservative Americans PAC acknowledged its role in seeking to shape the Democratic primaries.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cRepublicans are leveling the playing field after over a decade of Democrats meddling in our primaries, and with the Democrat Party in the midst of a civil war, Republicans would be stupid not to take advantage while pushing their candidates farther left,\u201d spokesperson Samantha Bullock said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee condemned the tactics but claimed that Republican efforts have backfired in the races, pointing to how concerns about Galindo powered Garcia to a landslide win.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThe electoral outlook for MAGA Republicans has become so bleak that they\u2019ve turned to their failed former Speaker of the House, who is helping to bankroll this cynical effort to rig Democratic primaries, including boosting a dangerous antisemite in Texas,\u201d spokesperson Justin Chermol said in a statement. \u201cThese desperate tactics have backfired, elevating the profile and on the ground excitement behind our formidable Red to Blue candidates.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A cowboy hat and state flag are seen at a campaign event in February 2026 in Tyler, Texas.\" class=\"wp-image-3291\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2672fd1475629e9c92be3a4995e3c02d.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2672fd1475629e9c92be3a4995e3c02d.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2672fd1475629e9c92be3a4995e3c02d-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>A cowboy hat and state flag are seen at a campaign event in February 2026 in Tyler, Texas.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Julio Cortez\/AP<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            CNN has reached out to American Prosperity Alliance for comment.\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n<strong>Shadowy super PAC spending<\/strong>\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            Quirks in campaign finance reporting deadlines allow for outside groups like these super PACs to register with the FEC in the weeks leading up to an election and spend unlimited amounts before they are required to file their first reports detailing fundraising and spending. Timed strategically, those reports won\u2019t reach voters until the election is over.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            That\u2019s allowed groups like Lead Left PAC to mask the source of their funding, and intervene aggressively in primaries without tipping their hands to voters.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3279\">Senate\u2019s likely next No. 2 warns Trump if Democrats take the majority: \u2018It\u2019s going to be a fight\u2019 on key values<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            In addition to Texas\u2019 35th, Lead Left PAC spent $1.4 million in Pennsylvania\u2019s 7th District opposing Bob Brooks, a top Democratic recruit who went on to win the primary anyway, and $300,000 in Nebraska\u2019s 2nd District, another key battleground, targeting state Sen. John Cavanaugh, who lost to Denise Powell.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Another super PAC, Real Change PAC, mirrored those tactics. Filings show that it received about $1.2 million from Conservative Americans PAC in May, while it was booking hundreds of thousands of dollars of ad time in Democratic primaries in New Jersey\u2019s 7th District and Maine\u2019s 2nd District \u2013 both of which concluded before its disclosure.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The results were mixed. In New Jersey, efforts to boost Tina Shah against eventual Democratic nominee Rebecca Bennett failed, though in Maine, they helped tilt the field against state Sen. Joe Baldacci, who lost the primary to state Auditor Matt Dunlap.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Matt Dunlap, a Democratic candidate for Congress, speaks at a campaign event Friday, June 5, 2026, in Bar Harbor, Maine.\" class=\"wp-image-3292\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c36d1d20b922d078259dd7e2ae2bd3fd.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c36d1d20b922d078259dd7e2ae2bd3fd.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c36d1d20b922d078259dd7e2ae2bd3fd-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Matt Dunlap, a Democratic candidate for Congress, speaks at a campaign event Friday, June 5, 2026, in Bar Harbor, Maine.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Robert F. Bukaty\/AP<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joe Baldacci give his closing statement during a Democratic primary debate in Lewiston, Maine, on May 28, 2026.\" class=\"wp-image-3293\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f338efd9f45748353f1558b9f321cff4.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f338efd9f45748353f1558b9f321cff4.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f338efd9f45748353f1558b9f321cff4-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Joe Baldacci give his closing statement during a Democratic primary debate in Lewiston, Maine, on May 28, 2026.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Brianna Soukup\/Portland Press Herald\/AP<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Additional examples, confirmed and suspected, litter the campaign map. Conservative Americans PAC funded another group, California Blue PAC, which engaged in the all-party primary in California\u2019s 40th District earlier this month, supporting Democrat Esther Kim-Varet in an unsuccessful attempt to avoid the member-on-member matchup now set between GOP Reps. Ken Calvert and Young Kim, a result of the state\u2019s partisan redistricting.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            And Democrats suspect that more Republican meddling is underway in New York\u2019s 17th District, where a group, Progressive Champions PAC, is on the air against Cait Conley, an Army veteran and former national security official looking to challenge GOP Rep. Mike Lawler.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            CNN has reached out to Progressive Champions PAC for comment.\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n        A chaotic campaign finance landscape\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            The GOP meddling comes as Democrats have already been divided on whether their House campaign arm should be intervening in their own party\u2019s primaries during an intensely competitive midterm cycle. Some of the Democratic candidates whom the GOP-linked PACs have sought to undermine, such as Baldacci, have had the backing of the DCCC.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Both parties have employed the strategy over the years to obscure their activities and interfere in each other\u2019s primaries. The tactics underscore the Wild West character of campaign finance in the wake of the Supreme Court\u2019s landmark 2010 Citizens United decision and another federal court ruling that spurred the creation of super PACs that spend unlimited sums influencing elections.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\nAs far back as 2018, pop-up super PACs with Democratic and Republican ties were spending millions in a critical West Virginia Senate primary, battling over the optimal matchup for the then-vulnerable incumbent Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US Sen. Joe Manchin is seen surrounded by reporters at the Capitol in 2018.\" class=\"wp-image-3294\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/33e5ca44dacdc1679f0cfe6ff882ed87.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/33e5ca44dacdc1679f0cfe6ff882ed87.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/33e5ca44dacdc1679f0cfe6ff882ed87-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>US Sen. Joe Manchin is seen surrounded by reporters at the Capitol in 2018.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>J. Scott Applewhite\/AP<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            But efforts to prop up rival-party candidates seen as having less general election appeal have also faced internal backlash.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In 2022, DCCC spending to boost the Trump-backed challenger of GOP Rep. Peter Meijer, one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach the Donald Trump after January 6, 2021, set off an intraparty debate. John Gibbs, Meijer\u2019s conservative primary challenger, ousted the moderate Republican and went on to lose the general election.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3275\">How the 2026 primaries are reshaping the Democratic Party<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<em>CNN\u2019s Fredreka Schouten contributed to this report.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An influential conservative nonprofit covertly funded a series of super PACs with names suggesting liberal provenance as the groups injected hundreds of thousands of dollars into key nominating Democratic contests across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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