‘These are people who endure the great lie [that] this election was stolen from Donald Trump, ” said Andrew Janz, founder of the Voter Protection Project, which acted against Nunes in 2018. ‘These are people who – after insurgents and domestic terrorists tried to overthrow an election – are the same members of Congress, the same politicians, who returned to the House floor, to the Senate floor, and voted for their support for these insurgents by a trying to invalidate legal and fair elections. ”
A total of 139 members of the Republican House and eight senators voted in January to object to the election results, shortly after a crowd of supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the US capital.
Separately, the group announces another target list of challenging races – labeled “Most Wanted” – that includes Florida state-owned company Ron DeSantis, Senator Marco Rubio (Fla.) And representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), Lauren Boebert. (Colo.), Kevin McCarthy (California) and Matt Gaetz (Fla.).
The voter protection project, which said these two groups are the first priorities for the midterm elections, expects to spend $ 10 million in total on the midterm races. The PAC poured more than $ 8 million into the 2020 election cycle.
Despite the absence of new House redistribution cards, the group said they want to start recruiting immediately and raising money for Democratic candidates. A big question facing the party is whether it can continue to raise grassroots donors, volunteers and voters at the same pace as it has been in recent years, now that Trump is no longer in office around them to motivate.
“This is not the time to give up pressure on a desperate Republican party sent to the minority by voters,” Heather Greven, executive director of the Voter Protection Project, said in a statement. “VPP is wasting no time in naming our leading targets and building a war chest to tackle the enemies of suffrage and democracy.”