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Top Democratic candidate under fire for ties to far-left extremists

Rebecca Cooke, a Democratic candidate for Congress, “pocketed almost 200 grand electing Democrat extremists,” a new ad from the Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF) super PAC says, criticizing the candidate’s history of raising millions of dollars for far-left Democrats across the country.  

Cooke’s company, Cooke Strategy, was paid for work on Democratic campaigns for years — and Republicans are now attacking her previous support for radical Democrats, even though her current bid for Congress is backed by more moderate party members.

“Liberal Rebecca Cooke [has] cooked up quite a story about herself,” the CLF ad says. “The truth: Cooke is a slick political operative who pocketed almost 200 grand electing Democrat extremists. Cooke supported radicals pushing open borders, defunding police, and ending cash bail. No wonder New York radical AOC is spending big money electing radicals like Cooke.”

 

Polling suggests that the Republicans’ attacks on Cooke are working. CLF’s latest polling shows her Republican opponent leading 49 percent to 44 percent. 

Cooke has given the GOP plenty more fodder to use against her. She is on video supporting the THRIVE Act, which Green New Deal activists hail as “a progressive recovery package that includes climate, care, immigration, democracy, labor rights, and justice.” She also told voters that she “support[s] the ban of AR-15s,” a policy opposed by Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R., Wis.), a former Navy SEAL. 

“I will say, at a national federal level, I do support the THRIVE Act,” Cooke said. “Um, and I do support um, you know, fully uh, Build Back Better, and fully implementing that.” The THRIVE Act is backed and sponsored by radical Reps. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) and Jamaal Bowman (D., N.Y.).

Republicans are even using Cooke’s business background against her. Van Orden’s campaign noted that Gov. Tony Evers (D., Wis.) appointed Cooke to the board of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp; however, “financial disclosures revealed she worked at one of the small businesses that her nonprofit gave a grant to,” the New York Post reported. 

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