Brace your self for this. It seems that Democrat anti-gun activist David Hogg is likely to be little greater than a grifter.
After being tossed out of the DNC the place he served as vice chair for a matter of weeks, Hogg determined to deal with his political PAC. Their purpose was to elect youthful and extra progressive Democrats. That’s not working out too well.
It seems, the PAC is a lot better at lining the pockets of consultants. Additionally they reportedly spent plenty of money on frivolous issues like health courses.
Hogg’s short-lived pillow firm was extra fiscally sound than this.
FOX News experiences:
David Hogg’s PAC spent hundreds of thousands on consultants, advertisements and health courses, data present: report
Regardless of pledging to spend $20 million to again youthful, extra progressive candidates, a PAC led by Democratic activist David Hogg has spent hundreds of thousands of {dollars} on political consultants, advertisements and even health courses.
The PAC, Leaders We Deserve, spent simply $455,000 to again three candidates in robust Democratic main races over the primary eight months of 2025, Axios reported.
That determine stands in distinction to the roughly $2.5 million spent on consultants, $1.1 million on digital advertisements, $965,000 on constructing donor lists and almost $5,000 on the health class subscription service ClassPass, in response to federal marketing campaign filings.
“We offer a wellness profit to our staff, like many employers throughout the nation,” Kevin Lata, co-founder and govt director of Leaders We Deserve, informed Axios. “Our projections present that each $1 we put into these investments will web $3-$5 by the top of the cycle. This helps to ensure each donation goes farther than it in any other case would.”
Even the liberal media is noticing.
New: David Hogg’s political group is off to a shaky star.
hasn’t endorsed any challengers to Dem incumbents
Success in 1/3 contests
Regardless of previous criticism of the “advisor class” the group spent $2.5 million of its $4.9 million this yr on consultantshttps://t.co/SogmwDLvcN— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) October 2, 2025
Extra from Mediaite:
Per Alex Thompson and Holly Otterbein, Leaders We Deserve, “hasn’t endorsed any challengers to Democratic incumbents in Congress” and “has been profitable in only one” of the meager three contests it has participated in.
That lone success got here in New York Metropolis’s mayoral race, which noticed Leaders We Deserve dole out $300,000 to a PAC supporting Zohran Mamdani, the eventual winner of the Democratic main. The opposite candidates backed by Hogg, Arizona’s Deja Foxx ($150,000) and Virginia’s Irene Shin ($5,000) misplaced by 39 and a half and 45.4 factors, respectively.
The quantity spent on these races pales compared to the quantity spent on political consultants ($2.5 million) and digital advertisements for itself ($1.1 million).
Hogg himself has beforehand blasted different members of his get together for listening “to the consulting class as a substitute of the working class as a result of more and more, our get together has surrounded itself merely with individuals who simply continually agree with it constantly moderately than speaking to precise individuals on the bottom.”
If Hogg’s PAC doesn’t work out, what’s he going to do subsequent? Develop into an MSNBC host?
