“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, which ran against Nunes in 2018.“ These are the people who – after rebels and domestic terrorists tried to overthrow an election – are the same members of Congress, the same politicians, who returned to the plenary of the Chamber, to the plenary of the Senate, and voted in favor of these rebels trying to invalidate a legal and fair election ”.
A total of 139 Republican members of the House and eight senators voted against the election results in January, shortly after a crowd of supporters of former President Donald Trump invaded the United States Capitol.
Separately, the group is making public another more challenging race target list – labeled “Most Wanted” – which includes Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Senator Marco Rubio (Florida) and representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene (Georgia), Lauren Boebert (Colorado), Kevin McCarthy (California) and Matt Gaetz (Florida).
The Voter Protection Project, which said that these two groups are its initial priorities for the midterm elections, expects to spend $ 10 million in total in midterm disputes. PAC poured more than $ 8 million into the 2020 election cycle.
Despite the absence of new House redistricting maps, the group said it wants to start recruiting and raising funds for Democratic candidates immediately. A big question the party faces is whether it can continue to motivate grassroots donors, volunteers and ordinary voters to the same extent as it has in recent years, now that Trump is no longer in office to motivate them.
“Now is not the time to ease the pressure on a desperate Republican Party that was sent to the minority by voters,” said Heather Greven, executive director of the Electoral Protection Project, in a statement. “The VPP does not waste time naming our main initial targets and building a war chest to face the enemies of the right to vote and democracy.”