Democrat strategists with ties to the Barack Obama administration have launched a super PAC intended to preemptively delegitimize any concerns Republicans might raise about election integrity. The so-called Democracy Defenders group will fund and support legal battles around the 2024 election if former President Donald J. Trump and his supporters challenge dubious election results, as they did in 2020.
Jim Messina, Obama’s 2012 campaign manager, chairs the PAC. It also includes Norm Eisen, a key figure in Trump’s first sham impeachment. T.J. Ducklo, who previously worked for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, is stepping down from Harris’s presidential campaign to become the PAC’s chief strategist.
With an initial $10 million budget, Democracy Defenders is poised to flood the courts and media with resources to counter any Republican efforts to question election results. This suggests that they are already intent on dismissing any claims of irregularities, regardless of their merit.
While Democrats claim they need to “protect” the election from Trump, with Messina saying they won’t let Trump “undermine” the election, Democracy Defenders’ launch appears to be a preemptive strike against any attempts to ensure integrity and transparency in the voting process.
The Democratic Nation Committee (DNC) and state Democrats are already suing to stop the Georgia State Election Board from reconciling apparent voting discrepancies before certification, insisting concerns should only be raised after the fact.
There is solid evidence that mail-in voting, in particular, was plagued by fraud during the 2020 election—with one in five mail-in voters admitting they cast illegitimate votes in a major poll.
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