LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, a Democratic megadonor, is the largest backer of a “Republican women” super PAC supporting Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, records show.
Women4Us, a group that has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on digital advertising boosting Harris against former President Donald Trump, has received $518,000 of its $644,000 war chest since July 1 from Hoffman, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
The super PAC, which, like others, may spend and raise unlimited sums to support candidates, calls itself a cohort of “current and former Republican women organizing and activating our fellow Republican and right-leaning independent women to defeat Donald Trump this fall.”
Women4Us was formed by political operatives with backgrounds in GOP politics, the Washington Free Beacon reported. Women4Us counts one of its advisers as Jennifer Horn, who co-founded the Lincoln Project, a scandal-ridden group opposing Trump, the outlet reported.
Hoffman’s significant backing of the group illustrates how left-wing activists have, in the last several years, teamed up with anti-Trump Republicans to boost Democrats. During the GOP primary, then-GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley was boosted by a group called Defending Democracy Together co-founded by Bill Kristol, a Never Trump writer, the Washington Examiner reported.
The Republican Accountability PAC, another anti-Trump committee, is heavily funded by Defending Democracy Together, Hoffman, and other left-leaning donors, the Daily Caller reported.
Hoffman, who did not respond to a request for comment through his venture capital firm, is not mentioned on the website of Women4Us. The super PAC also did not return a request for comment from the Washington Examiner.
Hoffman is a top funder of Future Forward, the main super PAC supporting Harris this election, the Washington Examiner reported.
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Since last month, Women4Us has directed almost $370,000 combined to the Virginia-based Resonate Networks, the Dallas-based firm Strategic Red, and the California-based SmartCall Media for digital advertising supporting Harris, according to federal filings.
The super PAC was registered with the FEC in July, and its treasurer is a lawyer named Mike McCauley, filings show. In an “allies” section on its website, Women4Us lists Kristol, the founding editor of the Weekly Standard, which was owned by Clarity Media Group, the media holding company for the Washington Examiner.