The Michael R. Bloomberg Group to combat weapons is planning to spend $ 10 million to help elect the year Democratic lawyers this year and in 2026, an investment he says aims to help protect the rule of law and democracy while President Trump holds the White House.
The group, which is every city for arms safety, will support Democratic candidates in 10 competitive states, including Virginia, this fall, Arizona, Georgia, Minnesota, Nevada Weskonsen, among others, next year, according to John Venblatt, the organization’s president.
The vocabulary spending from a group of nourishing Mr. Bloomberg, the former New York mayor and the huge democratic, is noticeable because of his clear hesitation in putting his money behind Vice President Kamala Harris last year. He spent months resisting motivation to donate, although his billionaire colleagues convinced him To give 50 million dollars In late October to a non -profit group that supports its campaign.
For years, everytown has spent money on his efforts below the ball to elect the Democratic candidates for the legislative councils of the state, especially In places where weapons control measures have a chance From the years and where the smaller amounts of money can have an effect on races.
Mr. Feinblatt said that pushing his group to support public lawyers, which will be called the Evertown Rule of Law, will focus on defending countries than the procedures conducted by the Trump administration more than work as an offensive playing book to not have arms control measures.
Mr. Venbalat said that the public prosecutor was “trying to protect the rule of law.” “They are trying to protect the things in every basic textbook for American democracy.”
He added: “We want to make sure that AGS knows that groups like us will support them if they did the right thing, and we want them to know that we have their back today and we will get their backs in 2026.”
Democrats Public Prosecutor filed a series of lawsuits against the Trump administration’s efforts To close federal agencies and Fill the financing To countries. With the Democrats in the minority in both the Congress rooms and the Trump administration in which the target loyalists work To collect the public and private oppositionThe courts are the main place for liberals for a significant opposition to the president.
Mr. Bloomberg’s recent spending on politics diminishes compared to his previous expenses.
In the 2020 general elections, he spent $ 173 million to elect Joseph R. Biden Junior – $ 100 million in Florida alone. Earlier that course, Mr. Bloomberg It spent more than a billion dollars In an attempt to win the primary race of the democratic presidency for himself, a failed effort in which he won only 59 delegates and only put the first place in the American Samoa conferences.
Mr. Feinblatt said he had no regret at the level of investment of Mr. Bloomberg’s limited investment in the elections last year.
“There was a lot of money spent in 2024,” he said. “I don’t think the money was the issue.”
Mr. Feinblatt said that everytown has spent about $ 5 million of public lawyers since 2017, including $ 500,000 each in 2022 to support bids for his re -election to Dana Nissil and Aaron Ford, the Democratic Public Prosecutor in Michigan and Nevada.
This spring, the group spent $ 553,000 for air television advertisements that support the liberal candidate for the Supreme Court in Wisconsin in the last month of a $ 100 million campaign. The candidate, Suzan Kroford, He won a decisive victory To maintain liberals, they control the Supreme Court of the Battle State.
