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From the Washington Free Beacon: A dark money group linked to Kamala Harris campaign attorney Marc Elias is boosting the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate through a series of YouTube ads in battleground states, an apparent ploy to pull conservative votes away from Donald Trump.
Civic Truth Action, a super PAC launched in July, has spent more than $1.5 million on ads supporting Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver, according to campaign finance disclosures released this week. The group is airing dozens of YouTube ads in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada touting Oliver as a “true conservative” who will “abolish income taxes” and “dismantle the nanny state,” according to the company’s ad database.
But Civic Truth Action isn’t funded by a group of small-government activists. Its sole backer—a dark money outfit called Evidence for Impact—has contributed $4,350,000 to Civic Truth Action since September, according to campaign finance records. Little is known about Evidence for Impact, but records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show that its “beneficial owner” is Ezra Reese, an attorney at the Democratic elections firm Elias Law Group.
Marc Elias, who opened the firm in 2022, serves as a top lawyer for the Harris campaign. While Democrats consider Elias a hero for his aggressive legal strategies, he has embraced the dark side of politics throughout his career. As an attorney for the Clinton campaign in 2016, Elias commissioned the infamous Steele dossier, which falsely accused Donald Trump of colluding with Russia.
The report explains that Elias also served as general counsel to Kamala Harris during her 2020 presidential campaign, and notes the two have a long history together.
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SCOOP:
Marc Elias’s latest dark money deception.
A super PAC is running ads to boost the Libertarian candidate as a “true conservative” who will “abolish income taxes.”
We tracked down the main funder, and it’s directly linked to Elias.https://t.co/hV1cH9dFtf
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) October 25, 2024
Elias celebrated on Friday when a federal judge blocked Virginia from removing noncitizens from their voter rolls.
BREAKING: Republicans lose again.https://t.co/1jS7sB0uJz
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) October 25, 2024
In 2020, Elias founded a far-left online news platform called Democracy Docket “dedicated to information, analysis and opinion about voting rights and elections in the courts.”
As a wave of liberals began canceling their subscriptions to the Washington Post on Friday because the paper refused to endorse Kamala Harris, Elias seized the moment to recruit them to his site.
If you are canceling your Washington Post subscription and want to support pro-democracy news, information and analysis, consider becoming a Democracy Docket paid member today. https://t.co/Ri2gSRekUl
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) October 25, 2024
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