The quarter-billion dollar PAC driving a red wave
The Conversation with Dasha Burns
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🗓️ 28 October 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, so to get it on the record, if you guys don't take back the house, who's |
| 0:07.2 | false is it? |
| 0:08.2 | We're going to take back the house. |
| 0:12.2 | I feel very confident that we will win back the house and we will win it with some |
| 0:15.5 | margin. |
| 0:17.0 | Dan Constan heads the Congressional Leadership Fund. |
| 0:20.1 | The House GOP's main super PAC, whose mission is to make Kevin McCarthy's speaker. |
| 0:25.6 | And right now, it's looking pretty good for Dan. |
| 0:28.6 | And Kevin, Republican candidates are seeing their polling numbers rebound into what might |
| 0:33.2 | be considered red wave territory. |
| 0:36.2 | The summer of optimism for Democrats has dissipated. |
| 0:40.6 | Constan says Democrats have reached the peak of the so-called DOBS effect, and they are |
| 0:45.5 | highly vulnerable on both the economy and crime in the final days of this election. |
| 0:50.9 | We are moving numbers against Democrat incumbents with ease at this point, and that says to |
| 0:56.2 | us that actually the environment is a little bit better than the top line suggests. |
| 1:01.9 | And he has a lot of money to take advantage of this improved political terrain. |
| 1:07.4 | Dan's super PAC will spend some $250 million in the 2022 mid-term cycle. |
| 1:15.9 | So how did a 37 year old get a quarter of a billion dollar budget to play with in American |
| 1:22.6 | politics? |
| 1:23.6 | That's a good question. |
| 1:27.3 | I'm Ryan Liza, this is Playbook Deep Dive. |
| 1:33.5 | So what does Dan do with all that money? |
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