AIPAC’s Support For Election Deniers Becomes Flashpoint In Maryland House Race

A former U.S. Capitol police officer, now running for Congress in suburban Maryland, is slamming AIPAC’s intervention in his race, noting the group’s support for dozens of Republicans who objected to certifying the 2020 election results even after the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.

Harry Dunn, who endured anti-Black racism while defending the Capitol from rioters on Jan. 6, said the hundreds of thousands of dollars that the United Democracy Project ― a super PAC affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee ― is spending in his race amounts to a threat to the democratic norms he fought to uphold during the infamous effort by violent demonstrators to prevent Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s election.

“Every candidate for Maryland’s Third Congressional District should immediately condemn this dark money spending bankrolled by MAGA Republicans,” Dunn said. “Candidates who receive this support accept the endorsement of an organization that has backed candidates and members of Congress who incited the rioters I fought on January 6th and tried to overthrow our democracy.”

Dunn is also due to hold a press conference on Wednesday morning about “rejecting MAGA super PAC money.”

UDP is legally obligated to disclose its direct donors, but it may receive donations from corporations and nonprofits whose funders are not public. And while UDP is almost exclusively active in Democratic primaries, some of the super PAC’s top contributors are indeed Republican mega-donors like Bernie Marcus and Paul Singer . The group has already reserved $600,000 worth of airtime to support state Sen. Sarah Elfreth, a mainstream Democrat who was the leading fundraiser in the contest before Dunn’s entrance.

The spending,