Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been a fixture in Washington, D.C. for decades.
She will do anything to make sure that Democrats win and that she holds onto power.
And Nancy Pelosi was shaking in her high heels when this secret plan for her to cling to power was released.
House Democrats funded third-party candidates to try and hurt Republicans in close races
House Republicans barely held on to their slim majority after the November elections.
Democrats ended up gaining one seat, which left Republicans with the smallest House majority for either party since 1930.
House Democrats were able to keep Republicans from picking up seats, despite a big win from President-elect Donald Trump at the top of the ticket.
And one reason for this was a dirty trick the Democrats played.
Post election campaign finance reports revealed that Democrats spent $5.8 million in more than two dozen races where they propped up Libertarian or independent candidates to siphon off votes from the Republican candidate.
The House Majority PAC, a PAC aligned with former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), donated nearly $4 million to the Voter Protection Project (VPP).
The VPP then used the money to support Libertarian or independent candidates in five key House races.
One of the closest losses for House Republicans this year came in Ohio’s 9th Congressional District.
Representative Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) defeated her Republican challenger Derek Merrin by just 2,382 votes.
The Libertarian candidate in the race, Tom Pruss, received over 15,000 votes after the Voter Protection Project spent $423,263 on direct mail and digital ads for him.
One Democrat-funded mailer called Merrin, a Republican Ohio State Representative, a “corrupt and self-serving politician,” while calling Pruss a “principled conservative rooting out corruption in Washington” who would “secure our border.”
Representative Matt Cartwright (D-PA), who lost by about 6,000 votes said that Kaptur told him that Pruss made a difference in her race.
“She told me about her Libertarian and she does think that that had a significant effect on her election,” Cartwright recalled, according to Politico. “I was only half joking when I said, ‘I wish I had one, too’.”
Democrats meddle in more House races
Representative Don Davis (D-NC) won a close race in North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District over his Republican challenger Laurie Buckhout by 6,303 votes.
The Libertarian candidate in the race, Tom Bailey, received 9,949 votes.
A group named Save Western Culture spent nearly $50,000 on digital ads and direct mail supporting Bailey.
The group was also involved in races where there was no third-party candidate by trying to reduce support for the Republican candidate.
Save Western Culture sent text messages to voters, alerting them that Representative Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ) was “Mexican-born.”
Ciscomani went on to narrowly win his race against his Democrat challenger.
And a robocall from the group attacked a Republican candidate for admitting that President Joe Biden won the 2020 Election.
Save Western Culture is connected to Democrats and former aide to John McCain and lobbyist Gibson McKay.
But not all democrats were thrilled with this underhanded trick.
Congressman Seth Moulton (D-MA) called this kind of meddling a “dangerous strategy.”
“It’s a very dangerous strategy,” Moulton said. “But let’s be honest, there are some places where it’s worked. So I understand why people look at it.”
House Democrats have proven yet again that they will use every dirty trick in the book to try to seize or cling to power.