Mysterious PACs Attempting To Split The Vote As Election Draws Near

An array of mysterious Democratic and Republican-linked PACs are working to support Libertarian and Green Party candidates in a ploy to siphon votes away from each other’s parties.

Civic Truth Action, a newly established super PAC with links to Democratic operatives, is distributing pro-life messaging with the aim of taking votes away from former President Donald Trump in North Carolina and directing them toward conservative third-party candidate Randall Terry, the New York Times reported. Republicans are playing a similar game, launching a super PAC called Badger Values in Wisconsin aimed at boosting Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein.

“Democrats are taking nothing for granted. We’ve learned the lessons of 2000 and 2016, when third-party candidates helped throw the White House to Republicans, and we’re not going to allow a repeat of that in 2024,” Democratic National Committee communications adviser Lis Smith told ABC News. “ are going to get a few percentage points, and that could affect the outcome in a close election, which by all polls, it appears very, very likely it’s going to be very close,” nonpartisan pollster Bernie Porn said to the outlet.

Badger Values was founded by a Republican consultant and has spent well over $1 million on its pro-Stein campaign, according to campaign finance disclosures. Civic Truth Action, meanwhile, has raised over $4 million from a Democratic-aligned dark money group and spent it boosting Libertarians while employing veteran Democratic operatives, according to the NYT.

Efforts to siphon votes away from Republicans have been especially active in the Texas and Maryland Senate races. The Save Western Culture PAC, for instance, has been trying to convince conservative voters that Republican former Maryland Gov.