Tim Lim

There's so many things, but I think the big storyline and what's getting the most coverage is the growth of super PAC spending in primaries and in politics in general.

I think that we're on pace this year to have more outside spending happen than actual coordinated or campaign spending happen.

Sure.

So you have campaign spending, which is money raised through federal or state committees that are regulated by bodies such as the federal elections commissions or state elections commissions within states.

the particular state, those have contribution caps.

Those have limits on how much can be given, who can give, and also how coordinated you can have the spending between a campaign and a party committee.

a super PAC or outside spending, an independent expenditure, after Citizens United, the Supreme Court case that allowed for outside spenders to come in.

Basically, any entity, any corporation can give as well as there's unlimited contributions allowed as well as unlimited spending allowed.

I think Democrats right now, with everything that's happening both in the country as well as globally, seeing the polling numbers, the responses from the Trump administration to the ever-rising costs and the pains that people are going through, we're feeling very confident about our chances this cycle to take back the House and we might even take back the Senate.

Well, I think 2024 taught us one very huge lesson, which is that you can't outspend your way out of a bad national environment.

And so, you know, Democrats fully expect to be outspent by Republicans in totality this cycle.

There is no doubt that the Republicans have more money than us going into it.

But we're fairly confident that even though we're going to be outspent

because of the prevailing winds and where things are headed from a pulling direction that we're still going to have really great results in November and that they're not going to be able to spend their way out of a pretty horrible environment that they've created.

Yes.

I mean, in cases like New Jersey 11, as well as the Illinois primaries, we're seeing a pretty outsized involvement by super PACs in these House primaries on a level that really hasn't been seen in a while.

You know, we're talking tens of millions of dollars being spent in individual House primary races.

And so in a lot of these primaries, that spending and that activity has been kind of the central focal point of the campaigns.

And so this is something that we expect to be seeing more and more throughout this cycle.

We have a number of primary states coming up, including California, Pennsylvania, Michigan.