Left-wing bil­lion­aires bankroll Dem super PAC plot­ting to win back work­ing-class vot­ers: ‘This is a pri­or­i­ty’

The top super PAC sup­port­ing House Democ­rats has cre­at­ed a $50 mil­lion fund aimed at find­ing ways to win back work­ing-class vot­ers thanks to some of the rich­est Democ­rats in the coun­try. 

“We’re lay­ing a mark­er down now,” Mike Smith, pres­i­dent of the House Major­i­ty PAC, told the New York Times about his group’s “Win Them Back Fund,” which was cre­at­ed to appeal to work­ing-class vot­ers that shift­ed away from the par­ty in the Novem­ber elec­tion. 

“This is a pri­or­i­ty.”

The list of donors to the House Major­i­ty PAC over the last few years includes sev­er­al Demo­c­ra­t­ic bil­lion­aires such as busi­ness­man Michael Bloomberg, Illi­nois Gov. J.B. Pritzk­er, hedge fund man­ag­er Tom Stey­er, and Linked In co-founder Reid Hoff­man.

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FEC records show that Bloomberg gave $13 mil­lion to the PAC between 2023 and 2024 to go along with $3 mil­lion from Pritzk­er and $2 mil­lion from Stey­er.

Hoff­man gave over $1.5 mil­lion to the PAC, accord­ing to FEC records. 

Oth­er high-pro­file dona­tions to the House Major­i­ty PAC include $10 mil­lion from phil­an­thropist Fred Eychan­er, $3.5 mil­lion from investor Stephen Man­del Jr., and $2 mil­lion from soft­ware devel­op­er Chris Wanstrath.

The PAC announced it will tar­get rough­ly a dozen spe­cif­ic races, includ­ing GOP Reps. Nick Begich in Alas­ka; Eli Crane, in Ari­zon­a’s 2nd Dis­trict; David Val­adao, Cal­i­for­ni­a’s 22nd Dis­trict; Ken Calvert, Cal­i­for­ni­a’s 41st Dis­trict; Gabe Evans, Col­orado’s 8th Dis­trict; Mar­i­an­nette Miller-Meeks, Iowa’s 1st Dis­trict; John James, Michi­gan’s 10th Dis­trict.

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“One of the major road­blocks we have faced as a par­ty has been declin­ing sup­port among a mul­ti-racial group of work­ing class vot­ers,” HMP said in a press release this week. “That’s why HMP is today launch­ing a 2026 Win Them Back Fund focused on ensur­ing that we win back work­ing class vot­ers across the con­gres­sion­al bat­tle­field. ”

“While Democ­rats at the Pres­i­den­tial lev­el have con­sis­tent­ly lost ground with work­ing class vot­ers for over the last decade, House Democ­rats like Reps. Adam Gray, Marie Glue­senkamp Perez, Don Davis, and Gabe Vasquez con­tin­ue to over­per­form with this cru­cial bloc of vot­ers. Their vic­to­ries demon­strate that House Democ­rats can win back this coali­tion of vot­ers with the sup­port of strate­gic invest­ments in recruit­ment, research, and pro­gram­ming.”

In a state­ment to Fox News Dig­i­tal regard­ing the bil­lion­aires’ sup­port, House Major­i­ty PAC com­mu­ni­ca­tions direc­tor CJ Warnke said, “The Trump admin­is­tra­tion is cur­rent­ly being run by Ghis­laine Maxwell’s BFF Elon Musk and the rich­est, most elite, and out-of-touch men on the plan­et.”

“Their plan is to steal ben­e­fits from hard­work­ing Amer­i­cans and enrich them­selves even fur­ther, and House Democ­rats will put an end to their scams and schemes,” he con­tin­ued.

A long list of polls, pun­dits and politi­cians have pub­licly con­clud­ed since the Novem­ber elec­tion that the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty shift­ed away from work­ing-class vot­ers dur­ing the pres­i­den­tial cam­paign, caus­ing Repub­li­can vic­to­ries in key House and Sen­ate races along with Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s return to the White House.

“It should come as no great sur­prise that a Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty which has aban­doned work­ing class peo­ple would find that the work­ing class has aban­doned them,” Sen. Bernie Sanders, I‑Vt., post­ed on X after the elec­tion. “While the Demo­c­ra­t­ic lead­er­ship defends the sta­tus quo, the Amer­i­can peo­ple are angry and want change. And they’re right.”