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During a recent episode of The Drill Down podcast, GAI President Peter Schweizer and Vice President Eric Eggers discussed Democrat super lawyer Marc Elias’ attempts to negatively impact the upcoming elections, including using dark money to influence specific ballot matchups.
“There’s a group called Civic Truth Action. It’s a super PAC that was just launched in July and they’ve dropped 1.5 million on ads supporting … Chase Oliver (the libertarian candidate for president),” Eggers said to Schweizer.
Eggers continues: “And this group has aired dozens of YouTube ads in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada — these key swing States. They have a sole backer — a dark money outfit
called Evidence for Impact, who has given over $4 million to this group. Now, records obtained by the
Washington Free Beacon shows that the only person connected to this money group is somebody named Ezra Reese. Ezra Reese is an attorney … for Marc Elias. He works for the Elias Law Group.”
“Here’s the irony: a guy who has sued states all over the country over laws he claims are racist, is doing his best to get the one like black, black candidate — Cornell West — off the ballot. Because, presumably he’s going to eat into Kamala’s support.”
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From The Washington Free Beacon:
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.
Harris has a deep history with Elias. He served as general counsel to her 2020 presidential campaign, and Harris thanked Elias for his “wise” counsel in her 2019 autobiography. Elias said after joining the Harris team that he looked forward to helping “defend democracy.”
