On the eve of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, J Street has announced that its PAC has so far raised nearly $10 million for its Democratic endorsees – shattering all previous JStreetPAC records.
This includes $3.4 million for the Harris-Walz campaign – making J Street the Jewish community’s biggest PAC bundler for the presidential ticket this election cycle.
“J Street has cemented its status as the mainstream voice on Israel in the Jewish community, in American politics and in the Democratic Party.” said J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami. “In this moment of intense polarization over Israel, J Street’s voice echoes the views and values of the majority of American Jews, offering a sane and balanced path between those who think Israel is always right and those who think Israel is always wrong.”
JStreetPAC has also distributed $6 million to date to critical House and Senate campaigns, including hundreds of thousands each for key pro-Israel, diplomacy-first champions in Congress like Susan Wild, Yadira Caraveo, Chris Deluzio, Sherrod Brown, Tammy Baldwin, Bob Casey, and more.
Significantly, JStreetPAC is endorsing 12 top-priority “red-to-blue” candidates, including Rebecca Cooke (WI-3) and Carl Marlinga (MI-10), in the key races that will determine which party controls Congress. Cooke is running against Derrick Van Orden, an election denier who joined the Trump rally on January 6. Marlinga is running against John James, who – like so many we’re opposing – voted to strip $14 billion from IRS enforcement funds to provide aid to Israel while excluding aid for both the Palestinian people and Ukraine.
“Other pro-Israel groups may raise more money in total – but they’re raising it from MAGA-supporting mega-donors and using it to drive a wedge in the Democratic Party, and to support the election-denying insurrectionist caucus within the Republican Party,” added Ben-Ami. “We are lifting Harris and Walz and other diplomacy-first candidates that will fight to uphold our democratic values, and do all they can to end the war in Gaza, bring the hostages home and prevent catastrophic confrontation with Iran and its proxies.”
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Our PAC dollars raised to date include:
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