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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHillary Clinton steps up her involvement in the midterms
Clinton, through her political organization Onward Together, donated the maximum of $5,000 to 19 Democratic House candidates and four secretary of state candidates in June, according to the group's filings with the Federal Election Commission. The donations represent the most concentrated midterm effort the former Democratic presidential nominee has made to date and further thrust Clinton into an election that will be the most potent judgment on Trump since he defeated her two years earlier.
Eleven of the House candidates who received donations from Clinton are vying to flip districts represented by Republicans in Congress that she won in 2016.
Representatives from Clinton's team and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee worked together to target which candidates Clinton should back to stay in line with the party's 2018 strategy, officials with both groups tell CNN.
While the former Democratic nominee has publicly endorsed Democrats on the ballot in November, she has yet to publicly hit the campaign trail and has largely kept her distance from 2018 campaign politics. One reason is strategic: Republicans are eager to tie Democratic candidates, especially those running in districts that lean Republican, to national figures like Clinton, a fact people close to the former secretary of state is well aware of.
These donations give Republicans a chance to hang Clinton's lack of popularity with Republican voters over Democratic challengers. Clinton, though, remains popular with Democratic voters, meaning her backing of a House candidate could help with base supporters.
"All along the goal has been singular. Do whatever it takes to lift up candidates and organizations who will be terrific stewards of Democratic values," Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill told CNN. "That's what we have done with our partner organizations at OT, and it's what our objective is when it comes to supporting individual candidates. There has never been a more important midterm election, and Secretary Clinton is going to do her part to lift up the next generation of leaders."
The only expressly political event Clinton has headlined this year, according to a Clinton official, is a July fundraiser in New York for Lucy McBath, the reluctant gun rights activists who became a "Mother of the Movement" after her 17-year-old son Jordan Davis was shot and killed by a white man in 2012 after a dispute over loud music. McBath, who recently won her runoff in Georgia, was a fervent supporter of Clinton during the 2016 campaign.
The coordination between Clinton and the DCCC is apparent in her list of recipient candidates. All but four of the candidates Clinton cut checks for are on the group's "Red to Blue" list, a assemblage of candidates that Democrats believe have the best chance to win Republican districts in November.
Those Democrats -- who all received $5,000 from Clinton's organization -- are:
Aftab Pureval in Ohio's 1st Congressional District Sean Casten in Illinois' 6th Congressional District Gina Ortiz Jones in Texas' 23rd Congressional District Harley Rouda in California's 48th Congressional District Jason Crow in Colorado's 6th Congressional District Josh Harder in California's 10th Congressional District Katie Hill in California's 25th Congressional District Lauren Underwood in Illinois' 14th Congressional District Mike Levin in California's 49th Congressional District Steven Horsford in Nevada's 4th Congressional District Katie Porter in California's 45th Congressional District Scott Wallace in Pennsylvania's 1st Congressional District Susan Wild in Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District TJ Cox in California's 21st Congressional District Jennifer Wexton in Virginia's 10th Congressional District
Clinton's donations did not exclusively go to candidates on the DCCC's list however. She also donated $5,000 each to Deb Haaland in New Mexico's 1st Congressional District, McBath in Georgia's 6th Congressional District, Mary Gay Scanlon in Pennsylvania's 5th Congressional District and Talley Sergent in West Virginia's 2nd Congressional District -- all of whom are not on the "Red to Blue" list.
Sergent worked for Clinton in 2008 and then during the former first lady's stint as Secretary of State.
Clinton also donated to $5,000 each to four Secretary of State candidates -- Nelson Araujo from Nevada, Deidre DeJear from Iowa, Jocelyn Benson from Michigan and Kathleen Clyde from Ohio -- and three congressional PACs -- the Congressional Hispanic Caucus' Bold PAC, the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus ASPIRE PAC and the Congressional Black Caucus PAC.
https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/politics/hillary-clinton-steps-up-her-involvement-in-the-midterms
Glamrock
(11,794 posts)lunamagica
(9,967 posts)JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Meaning?
How could they not with Sen Claire McCaskill, a long time friend & political collegue of HRC's & the Dem Party.
RandySF
(58,655 posts)And he's trying to be cute by referencing Hillary's loss there in 2016.
LisaM
(27,800 posts)Last edited Tue Jul 31, 2018, 03:03 AM - Edit history (1)
And where Bill went over Labor Day weekend. Apparently if she'd gone to Iron Mountain on election eve, all would have been changed.
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Hekate
(90,616 posts)There's 50+ counties in MY state and she just took us for fcking granted, yes she did. With the biggest population in the nation, how COULD she be so blase?!?!
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)And a Michigander who has long known it was a mistake to give MI almost no thought beyond, yeah, MI goes blue, moving on...
The state party cedes almost the whole north with local effort getting no support most times. The DNC ignores MI and it's all a recipe for defeat.
But I'm sure you can correct me on the politics of state, I await your enlightenment.
RandySF
(58,655 posts)Since her help appears to be unwelcome by some.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)There was never a scenario where she would have lost Michigan and Wisconsin while winning Pennsylvania and Florida. In other words, it would not have denied her the 270th electoral vote.
Those states, along with North Carolina and Arizona, all moved together. Comey is what moved them, not the states being ignored.
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)Missouri is MO.
MontanaMama
(23,297 posts)Wwcd
(6,288 posts)iluvtennis
(19,843 posts)Tatiana
(14,167 posts)For those who think she should stay out of the limelight... have several seats!
We need all hands on deck. Everything that could motivate the base to get out and vote, we need to be doing it. She will help in the non-Appalachian areas.
Cha
(297,026 posts)filings with the FEC. unlike some political org who have it set up so they don't have to show where their money comes from. Real transparent. Sarcasm.
Only that canard that Hillary isn't popular is a fucking Myth. and I'm sick of seeing repeated ad nauseam.
I remember when Jordan Davis was shot and killed in Florida by that sick ass ol white killer with a gun.
Good Luck Lucy McBath!
I didn't see Sharice Davids' name.. I hope some PAC is helping her.. Oh I know, Janelle Monae endorsed her and Janelle is on board with Michelle Obama for #WhenWeVote.. It Can Change Everything!
But, Hillary's Org did donate to Deb Haaland, a Native American woman, in New Mexico, who also would be one of the First Native Women in Congress!
Cha
(297,026 posts)with actually deeds.. not just talking about them.
oasis
(49,365 posts)Hillary has paid her dues throughout the years, but soldiers on. Maybe she'll accept this high honor.
calimary
(81,179 posts)She persists. My admiration for this woman knows no limits.
Unfortunately, the Lets-Dump-All-Over-Hillary movement persists as well. Even here.
Cuz its all HER fault, right! Hang it on Hillary, eh?
Dont ever expect me to join in on that crap.