In the middle of Joe Biden's presidency, in November, a midterm election will be held in the United States, and as a result of the voting, part of the Congress - the Senate and the House of Representatives - will be replaced. A significant part of the electorate is dissatisfied with the policies of the Democratic Party president, especially due to the record high inflation - several analysts emphasize that the reason for this is not the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, since the prices (especially of fuel) skyrocketed even before that - reads the Tűzfalgroup in the blog summary .
Last fall, the Democrats lost the gubernatorial election in the state of Virginia, which has been known as a Democratic "stronghold" for twelve years, and which Biden won in November 2020 by a margin of ten percentage points. Their hay is not doing well.
Democrats have a majority in the hundred-member Senate, with 48 Democrats and two independents standing against fifty Republican senators. The latter always vote together with the Democrats, so breaking the 50:50 ratio requires the vote of the current vice president, that is, now the Democratic politician Kamala Harris. However, the situation may change with the by-election. President Joe Biden's popularity index is 41 percent, which is only a few points higher than his predecessor, Donald Trump's 2018 figure, when the Republicans lost big in the midterm elections.
George Soros and his daughter Andrea Soros Colombel also fund two organizations that support far-left politicians who support defunding the police. Alexander Soros, the expected heir to the Soros empire, wants to put American Jewry at the service of progress. Apparently, after their calculations in Hungary did not work out, they are concentrating their resources on the American midterm elections.
Soros money flowed into a joint fundraising committee and a Political Action Committee (PAC) associated with their efforts. The joint fundraising venture, Lead the Way 2022, includes Way to Lead PAC, the campaign committee of Missouri Rep. Cori Bush, and the campaigns of twelve other progressive politicians seeking to enter Congress.
György Soros has long supported the transformation of the American criminal justice system according to his own ideas. The billionaire speculator has poured tens of millions of dollars into district attorney elections supporting progressive candidates and has given large sums to groups focused on "police reform efforts," including funding a center used by progressive activists calling for police abolition.
His daughter, Andrea Soros Colombel, lives her life less in the public eye than her father. Nevertheless, in the campaign for the 2022 elections, he also supports the joint fundraising committee for the benefit of Cori Bush and other far-left politicians. According to Federal Election Commission records, he gave $100,000 to Lead the Way 2022, a joint fundraiser for the Way to Lead PAC and the campaigns of progressive candidates. Andrea Soros Colombel is also a member of the Global and US Board of Directors of the Open Society Foundations.
Soros contributed a separate amount to the Way to Lead PAC, which is linked to the joint fundraiser. The speculator transferred $100,000 from Democracy PAC to Way to Lead's contribution-free account, which can be used for ads supporting or opposing candidates.
With the support they provided, György Soros and his daughter became the number one supporters of Lead the Way 2022 and Way to Lead in the 2022 elections. These two organizations support Cori Bush and progressive hopefuls who are trying to expand the ranks of the so-called "squad" within Congress. The squad is a group of six Democratic members of the US House of Representatives. It originally consisted of four women elected in the 2018 US House elections: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. They have since been joined following the 2020 US House elections by Jamaal Bowman of New York and Cori Bush of Missouri. The group is known to be among the most progressive and left-wing members of the United States Congress.
Lead the Way 2022 transferred nearly $40,000 to Cori Bush's campaign coffers this cycle, according to the announcements. The Missouri Democrat is an outspoken supporter of defunding the police. In addition, the organization also disbursed money to participants in the joint fund-raising venture, many of whom also support defunding the police.
Rana Abdelhamid, who is running in New York's 12th Congressional District, received $28,000 from Lead the Way 2022. Abdelhamid called defunding law enforcement a feminist "priority" in a now-deleted Instagram post. "The rate of intimate partner violence in police officers' homes is up to four times higher than in the general population," he wrote in a graph, referring to data from the National Center for Women and Policing. Another graphic in the post encouraged readers to donate to Defund the Police Efforts.
Illinois District 7 candidate Kina Collins also cashed in $28,000 from Lead the Way 2022. Collins participated in a rally called Defund the Police and called for the abolition of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Odessa Kelly, who is running for Tennessee's 7th District, received nearly $41,000 from Lead the Way 2022. Kelly indicated in an interview that she supports defunding the police: “There are some groups that are 100 percent about protecting our communities and defunding the police and they're at the forefront of all that stuff. I am with them".
In recent years, György Soros has focused on attacking the criminal justice system. The speculator has supported district attorney elections across the United States with nearly 30 million dollars, often in the Democratic primaries as well, and has always stood behind the most progressive candidate in the field.
Soros has used the Open Society Foundations to support "police reform" groups, including $4.5 million for a money center used by far-left activists calling for the abolition of the police, Fox News reported. In 2020, the Open Society Foundations spent $220 million to promote "racial equality," of which $70 million was spent on local efforts to reform criminal justice, or defund the police in Hungarian.
In addition to his father and brother, Alexander Soros, the heir to the empire of the Open Society Foundations, does not hesitate in the campaign periods before the American elections. As early as 2015, he launched a political action committee with the goal of rallying the American Jewish community behind progressive congressional candidates.
Bend the Arc Jewish Action PAC said in a statement that it will use the political resources of the Jewish community to provide financial support to progressive candidates. It aims to send a clear message that political candidates cannot rely solely on Israel's support to win the support of the Jewish community.
“Bend the Arc Jewish Action PAC expands the definition of what it means to receive Jewish political support,” PAC director Hadar Susskind said in a statement. " Jews are among the most progressive and committed constituencies in American politics. The way to gain our political support is to stand up for issues such as marriage equality (in Hungarian, the possibility of same-sex marriage), immigration reform (that is, the admission of illegal immigrants), racial justice (especially Black Lives Matter), and the rest of the domestic progressive agenda that interests our community the most."
The PAC announced that it had donated $200,000 to twelve House Democrats.
"There is a great need among American Jews for a political voice that focuses on their real priorities, " Alexander Soros said in a statement. He added that “ to date, there has not been a Jewish PAC that has focused on domestic issues. I think it plays a very important role in the Jewish world, and it plays an important role in the progressive world. This PAC concentrates the political power and resources of American Jews and puts them at the service of the progressive movement”.
If the opposition investment has not succeeded in Hungary, the Soros family concentrates more on the United States. We hope that their candidates will perform similarly in the by-elections there.
Soros reaches deep into his pocket if he has to, and Tim Ryan, a Democrat running for the Ohio senatorial seat, who won the party's primary election for the position on May 3, 2022, is presumably aware of this as well. So, in November, he will face "Hillbilly Elegy" author JD Vance, who also won the support of former President Donald Trump in the Republican primary. Trump won Ohio by 8 percentage points twice before.
According to Tim Ryan himself, he wants to address the workers and represent them in the Senate if he is elected. His communication supports this attitude, since in a Facebook post he criticized those American billionaires who take advantage of the laws to pay no or hardly any taxes. György Soros is among them, and it is precisely this fact that makes the politician's behavior rather perverse.
Ryan has no problem accepting campaign support from the billionaire speculator and his family members. He donated to the politician:
- George Soros,
- his son, Alexander Soros,
- another son, Jonathan Soros' wife, Jennifer Ann Allan Soros,
- and his ex-wife Annaliese Soros (née Witschak).
As the saying goes: money has no smell. However, the question of credibility is important in politics, and it is highly questionable if a politician accepts financial support from a tax evader whom he previously criticized in order to hope for victory...
Six months before the November election, it's too early to tell if Ryan's strategy is working. Interviews with voters, former elected officials and community leaders in the industrial region known as the Niles, Warren and Mahoning Valleys and other Ohio cities show how difficult the midterm elections will be for Democrats, including Ryan. The latter's message based on job creation and economic revitalization is in direct conflict with the prices that working-class voters encounter in grocery stores and gas stations, reports the Tűzfal group.
Source: hirado.hu
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