Billionaire Steyer, Emily's List pump cash into Virginia to help Democrats
Billionaire Tom Steyer is pouring $1 million into efforts to register at least 12,000 millennial voters in Virginia, part of a broader push to deliver the General Assembly to Democrats in fall elections.
NextGen America, the liberal advocacy group Steyer founded in 2013, will target 11 mostly Republican-held districts with digital ads and other forms of outreach to voters between the ages of 18 and 35, with messages centered on gun safety, reproductive rights and climate change, the group announced Monday.
And two national Democratic political action committees will pump a combined $600,000 into Virginia this year to try to boost women candidates.
Priorities USA and Emily's List announced Monday that they will back some of the 36 female candidates around the state who support abortion rights, in part with a $600,000 digital campaign "focused on voter persuasion and mobilization."
Virginia is one of four states with legislative races in 2017 but the only one where control of the state legislature is at stake. All 140 seats in the General Assembly are on the ballot in November, and the GOP holds a three-seat edge in the House (51 to 48) and a bare majority in the Senate (20 to 19), with one vacant seat in each chamber.
"This is a specific focus on the two chambers of the legislature, and each one of them can turn blue this year," Steyer said, referring to razor-thin majorities Republicans hold after Democrats made sweeping gains in 2017. "Obviously, that's something that would be incredibly important."
Democrats have been hoping that a wave of successes in recent Virginia elections will move them into control of the legislature for the first time since 1995. The party in charge in 2021 will oversee the next statewide redistricting effort, following next year's census - potentially cementing an advantage in future elections.
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supporting Dems and getting the fucking moron impeached last week. Since then I have bee n seeing more ads on TV. Thank you Tom! He puts his money where his mouth is. 
