Liberal group targets Republicans who voted to overturn 2020 election
Politico
The Voter Protection Project expects to spend $10 million in total on midterm House and Senate races.
By HOLLY OTTERBEIN
02/26/2021 06:00 AM EST
A liberal voting rights group is pledging to spend at least $1 million to oust 20-plus Republican members of Congress who voted to contest the presidential election results.
The Voter Protection Project, which shared its plans first with POLITICO, is releasing its target list on Friday. Each of the House members and senators in the PACs crosshairs has been singled out in part because they won their last races by single digits.
The list, which the organization dubs the Treason Caucus, includes Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas), Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Rick Scott (Fla.). Reps. Devin Nunes (Calif.), Darrell Issa (Calif.), Scott Perry (Pa.) and Jeff Van Drew (N.J.) are among the House members the PAC is looking to unseat.
These are people who perpetuate the big lie [that] this election was stolen from Donald Trump, said Andrew Janz, founder of the Voter Protection Project, who ran against Nunes in 2018. These are people who after insurrectionists and domestic terrorists tried to overthrow an election these are the same members of Congress, same politicians, who went back on the House floor, on the Senate floor, and voted in support of these insurrectionists by trying to invalidate a legal and fair election.
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