The Badger Report

WelcomePAC noted as top donor for Cooke’s campaign

The Down Ballot

"A Democratic group called Welcome PAC had deployed $260,000 for Fox. The largest House organizations, though, have yet to get involved directly"

PennLive

“WelcomePAC has been at work since last fall through its support of “Republicans Against Perry,

The Down Ballot

“WelcomePAC, which says it supports "moderate Democrats in conservative-leaning congressional districts," has spent about $300,000 on behalf of Democrat Whitney Fox.”

Harvard Political Review

“Welcome PAC, a center-left organization that identifies and supports challengers to vulnerable Republican candidates, has supported Stelson as well. Perhaps most importantly, Janelle Stelson doubled Congressman Perry’s fundraising haul in the second quarter of 2024.”

The Seattle Times

“Much of Nierenberg’s money has gone to a political committee called Welcome PAC. It seeks to help nontraditional Democrats “win the middle” in overlooked, red-leaning districts that have extremist GOP candidates.”

RAW Story

“Not only is Whitney a candidate committed to bridging divides and welcoming conservatives into her coalition," said the PAC's co-founder Lauren Harper Pope, "but she’s running against an extremist who’s been stumping for an increasingly unpopular J.D. Vance."

NBC News

“He’s not only over-performed in a red congressional district, he’s been able to hold it for several cycles, which is truly a feat,” said Lauren Harper Pope, the co-founder of Welcome PAC, which works to recruit moderate Democrats in conservative-leaning areas. “We should be learning from him, not the other way around.”

New York Times

"Chris Dempsey, a Democratic operative, started a group called Delegates Are Democracy to educate delegates about the various nomination processes, including for a hypothetical open convention if Mr. Biden were to step aside. He said his team had spoken to scores of delegates, and many believed they were being taken for granted. “Almost without exception, the delegates that we talk to feel that they do not have adequate information about what’s happening,” he said. “They want to be a part of something that is seen as legitimate, orderly, fair, transparent, and they don’t feel that way right now.”

ABC News

Lauren Harper, a cofounder of a group called Welcome PAC that supports Democrats running in red districts, told ABC News that she had also not yet sensed a change with donors focusing on down-ballot races. But, Harper suggested, she won't be complaining if she does. "If you are figuring you're going to lose in one place," she said, "I would think it's smart to pick it up in another place that you have more confidence in."

NBC News

"Lauren Harper, a co-founder of Welcome PAC, which supports moderate Democrats running in conservative-leaning swing districts, said its polling shows electability remains the overwhelming concern for Democrats when they think about whom they want as their nominee, including potential replacements for Biden. “They want someone who can win,” she said. “And many don’t think that Biden can do it.”

Boston Globe

“‘There’s momentum moving toward the center, and both the far left and far right demonstrated recently how important momentum is in politics”’said Liam Kerr, cofounder of the Welcome Party, which pushes the idea of a Democratic tent big enough to welcome independents and disaffected Republicans.”

New York Times

“Welcome PAC, a group that works on a range of Democratic and nonpartisan initiatives across the country, has also run a series of ads on Mr. Avlon’s behalf highlighting Ms. Goroff’s 2020 loss.”

Democracy Journal

“While the polarization and hyperpartisanship gripping American politics pit Republicans against Democrats, a nasty byproduct is the strangling of moderate, pragmatic political leaders within their own parties…Fortunately, partisan centrist political entrepreneurs [have stepped in] whose attitude toward politics is more welcoming.”

PBS News Hour

“Republicans against Perry is hoping to encourage moderate republicans to to back the democratic contender… [Janelle Stelson] is not some member of the AOC squad coming in to impose progressivism on centra PA. This is a moderate who easily could have, in an earlier time, run as a republican. We know there are enough republicans in this district to split their tickets.”

Wall Street Journal

“The voters that elected Biden in the first place are the center-left voters that liked his centrist policies, not the Bernie Sanders-Elizabeth Warren slice of the electorate,” said Lauren Harper Pope, who co-founded a group called WelcomePAC that urges Democrats to make pragmatic, big-tent appeals.

York Dispatch

"We know that there are a significant number of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents in the district who don’t want an extremist version of the GOP, even preferring to vote for a relatively moderate Democrat," Snyder told The York Dispatch.

PennLive

The Republicans Against Perry group plans on having a busy April as it ramps up efforts to oust GOP Rep. Scott Perry from his 10th Congressional District seat.