All posts tagged "Soros"

MAGA's "bogeyman" George Soros dropped $10 million to boost California Gov. Gavin Newsom's redistricting campaign and push back against President Donald Trump.

The billionaire megadonor is known for backing progressive allies and is now the single largest donation to date for Proposition 50, Politico reports.

"Soros is a longstanding benefactor for the left and bogeyman for the right," Politico reports. "He has poured millions into California politics in recent years, spending $1 million to help shield Newsom from a 2021 recall attempt and working to elect progressive prosecutors who embraced lighter sentencing and tougher police accountability."...

Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) ranted to a group of Jewish witnesses about globalism and billionaire George Soros on Wednesday.

At a House Judiciary Committee hearing about free speech and anti-Semitism, Van Drew used his time to insist he could criticize Soros without being a racist.

"I am pro-Israel," Van Drew began. "Yet, I still believe that we shouldn't use these words to try to say, well, if you believe that George Soros is involved in our local elections, because he is, if you believe that he is funding prosecutors and local officials that have a different vision for America than most Americans do, he is, that doesn't make me racist." ...

Bulwark writer Joe Perticone revealed in his newsletter Tuesday that Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy once praised Paul Soros for his scholarship program for immigrant law students.

George Soros has become a huge target for anti-Semitists and Republicans for his ongoing funding of progressive causes.

It was reported by Newsweek last week that according to Ramaswamy's Wikipedia editing history, there were lines removed that detailed his receipt of a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans in 2011. However, the fellowship is listed on the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans website. It was then put back into the biography entry. ...