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Dems quietly guide super PACs to boost spoiler House candidates
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House Democrats' campaign arm is instructing allied super PACs to promote minor candidates in several key House races, Axios has learned.
Key facts
- Registered Republicans under the age of 55 need to see ads," the redbox for Colorado's 5th District says, "showing
- House Democrats' campaign arm is instructing allied super PACs to promote minor candidates in several key House races, Axios has learned
- This allows Democrats to steer outside groups toward siphoning votes from Republicans without violating laws against direct coordination
- In the post-Citizens United era, redboxes have emerged as a way for campaigns to give messaging guidance to cash-rich outside groups that often have less localized knowledge of their turf
Summary
This allows Democrats to steer outside groups toward siphoning votes from Republicans without violating laws against direct coordination. An Axios review of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's "redboxes", publicly available webpages laying out what PACs should say in ads and which voters to target, found references to minor candidates in five races. The DCCC included language on four of those pages promoting a third-party or independent candidate with language touting their conservative, pro-gun or anti-government bona fides. "Registered Republicans under the age of 55 need to see ads," the redbox for Colorado's 5th District says, "showing that.