Dems' cynical spending on Trumpy primary candidates shows their priority is power, not 'saving democracy'

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://nypost.com/2022/09/07/dems-cynical-spending-on-trumpy-primary-
candidates-shows-their-priority/

President Joe Biden says that “MAGA Republicans” stand for “semi-fascism”
that “threatens the very foundations of our republic.” Who are these semi-
fascists? Sometimes he says they’re President Donald Trump and his
supporters, then he backpedals. Sometimes he says they’re the Jan. 6
rioters or people who think Biden stole the 2020 election. Sometimes he
lumps in pro-lifers, Wall Street and anyone who opposes Biden’s agenda.

Biden’s a Democrat, so it’s fair play for him to oppose all Republicans.
But if Democrats want Americans to take seriously their dire warnings
about Make America Great Again candidates being a threat to the survival
of democracy, the least they could do is stop helping Trump allies and
“Stop the Steal” protesters win Republican primaries.

They’ve been up to that all year, to the tune of $43.9 million and
counting in spending on TV ads and mailers. In nearly every case where
Democrats have taken sides in Republican primaries, they’ve backed either
a Trump-endorsed candidate or one who says Trump was robbed in 2020:

In the Illinois gubernatorial primary, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the
Democratic Governors Association spent a record-breaking $35 million on
Trump-backed state Sen. Darren Bailey, twice as much as Bailey and his
allies spent. Bailey, trailing in the polls in May, beat Aurora Mayor
Richard Irvin, who was bidding to become the state’s first black governor.
In Pennsylvania’s gubernatorial primary, Democrat Josh Shapiro spent more
than $840,000 to help Trump-endorsed Doug Mastriano, who attended and
helped organize the Stop the Steal rally. Mastriano easily won his primary
against a divided field despite spending less than $370,000 on his own TV
ads.
In Colorado’s Senate primary, Democrats supported state assemblyman and
Stop the Steal rally attendee Ron Hanks, who literally launched his
campaign with an ad blowing up a Dominion voting machine. Democratic
Colorado, a front group for Chuck Schumer’s Senate Majority PAC, spent
more than $4 million boosting Hanks — more than 30 times as much as Hanks
spent on his entire campaign. Hanks still lost to construction executive
Joe O’Dea. Democrats also spent almost $2 million on former mayor Greg
Lopez, another stolen-election candidate, in the state’s gubernatorial
primary and another $300,000 meddling in a House primary, both of which
failed.
In Maryland, the DGA spent $1.16 million to lift Trump-endorsed, QAnon-
sympathetic, Stop the Steal rally attendee Dan Cox over Kelly Schulz. Cox,
who spent just $21,000 on ads, was outraised 5 to 1 by Schulz, who was
supported by Gov. Larry Hogan.
In the House, Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer — who voted to impeach Trump —
lost his primary to Trump-endorsed challenger John Gibbs. The Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee spent $435,000 on ads backing Gibbs in
the campaign’s closing days, more than Gibbs raised in his entire
campaign. California Rep. David Valadao, who also voted to impeach Trump,
narrowly survived a primary against MAGA-hat-wearing Stop the Steal
challenger Chris Mathys; Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s House Majority PAC spent
more than $110,000 aiding Mathys.
In Arizona’s gubernatorial primary, Democrats sent out a formal thank-you
to Karrin Taylor Robson for past donations to the party, a move aimed at
helping Trump-endorsed candidate Kari Lake, who won the primary and has
vowed to “decertify” the 2020 election, over Robson, who was backed by
Mike Pence and Gov. Doug Ducey.
Now, in New Hampshire’s Senate primary, the Senate Majority PAC is putting
$3.2 million behind another Trumpy stolen-election candidate, retired
Brigadier Gen. Don Bolduc, while Senate Republicans are spending millions
to try to stop Bolduc and nominate state Sen. Chuck Morse.
Nancy Pelosi, asked about this strategy, said that Democrats are just
acting “in furtherance of our winning the election.” That’s all that
really matters to her party. Democrats’ words may say that they’re worried
about MAGA Republicans as a threat to the republic — but their money says
that they can’t live without them.

Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review.

Twitter: @BaseballCrank

Comments:

timothy bayer
8 September, 2022

How can people not think they were better off under Trump than under this
democrat administration? I don't enjoy being miserable, and Trump proved
he wasn't bought off by our world enemies, either. This country needs
Trump back, and democrats know that. That's why they're doing everything
they can to stop him from running again. They know he'll win. And they'll
use voter fraud and corruption again to stop him.


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dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.