Democratic PAC launches ad buy in House battlegrounds hitting GOP on Project 2025

A Democratic political action committee (PAC) is launching a $2 million campaign in key House battlegrounds as they sound alarms about Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for the next Republican president. 

Save Democracy PAC, which has backed Democrats in dozens of congressional races, is launching cable and digital ads in eight critical districts across the country as part of its “Stop Project 2025” effort, according to a release shared first with The Hill. 

“Despite overwhelming public opposition, House Republicans are already embracing these policies and are refusing to stand up to Trump and his extreme agenda in the final three months until Election Day,” reads the release.

Among the districts targeted by Save Democracy PAC’s initial round of spending are California’s 13th Congressional District, where Democrat Adam Gray is challenging first-term Republican Rep. John Duarte, and Washington state’s 3rd Congressional District, where first-term Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is headed toward a rematch with a Trump-backed challenger. 

The move to spotlight the Heritage Foundation-led Project 2025 in key House races comes as Democrats intensify their attacks around the proposal, a set of right-wing policies and initiatives conservatives hope former President Trump could herald into the White House this fall, though Trump has distanced himself from them.

The proposal would, among other initiatives, roll back abortion access, revoke federal approval for the abortion drug mifepristone and cut the departments of Education and Commerce. 

Vice President Harris and her newly named running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, have been decrying the plans along the campaign trail as they head toward a November showdown with Trump. Republicans have downplayed the influence of Project 2025, while Democrats have looked to it as a way to amp up voter urgency into the fall. 

Save Democracy PAC’s ads, along with direct mail, are also set to hit the GOP challengers running against Democratic Reps. Steven Horsford (Nev.), Emilia Sykes (Ohio) and Andrea Salinas (Ore.). Others ads will go up in California’s 22nd, Michigan’s 8th and New York’s 17th congressional districts, according to the release. The races are among some of this cycle’s most competitive as both parties battle for control of the lower chamber.

The group raised and spent nearly $5 million in the midterms, according to Federal Election Commission filings, as part of its push to “confront and defeat Republican extremism up and down the ballot.”