Crypto PAC money sweeps four primaries, then stalls in Miami

Crypto super PAC Fairshake backed winners in four of five congressional primaries on Tuesday. But a Democrat in the Miami area weathered more than $2 million in attack ads funded by Fairshake.

Fairshake sweeps four primaries and drops Florida’s 24th

Fairshake channels its spending through two affiliated PACs. Protect Progress backs Democrats. Defend American Jobs backs Republicans. The two committees spent about $3.6 million on primaries in Alaska, Florida and Wyoming.

Defend American Jobs spent about $1.5 million to support three Republicans. Two of them were winners. Sydney Gruters won Florida’s 16th district, and Representative Harriet Hageman won the Wyoming Senate race. The third, Nick Begich in Alaska’s at-large district, is expected to advance.

Protect Progress spent more than $150,000 on Democrat Lois Frankel, who won the primary in Florida’s 23rd district. The four will likely face challengers in the general election in November.

Florida’s 24th district was the one exception. Protect Progress spent over $2 million on negative ads and still lost. Oliver Gilbert took the Democratic primary with 34.4% of the vote, beating Shevrin Jones and Kendrick Meek.

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