Summer Lee, Declaring Victory in Pennsylvania, Puts Dark Money Democrats on Notice

, another group that invested hundreds of thousands of dollars to beat Lee, also spent money to defeat notable progressives in primary races in Florida, California, and Ohio.

“We’re coming off as having our first [Black woman] Supreme Court justice, which is a win and it’s celebratory…[but] it’s sad for the times that we’re in to see the attack ads that are coming in,”the executive director of the New Pennsylvania Project, which works to expand the electorate, said of Lee’s campaign.

“We have all this talk about how woke Democrats are. I think that Democratic Party officials out in Allegheny [County] need to wake up,” Kenner said. “It’s a shame. It’s a shame.”the independent expenditure manager for Justice Democrats, which endorsed Lee, told me Tuesday. “It’s pretty despicable…. As progressives, we are usually running at a monetary disadvantage. This race is no exception.

But Lee backers are hailing her results as evidence that sometimes money isn’t everything. “It’s high time that diversity is reflected in our elected leaders. And Summer Lee has shown that she is able to run the race that she wants to run without the backing in full support of a machine,” a Pennsylvania-based Democratic strategist told me. “I think that that also just speaks to [that] you can be against the status quo without having to be like a MAGA Republican to make change.

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