Mega-Donor George Soros Began Targeting Arizona and Georgia Elections in 2015

Mega-Donor George Soros Began Targeting Arizona and Georgia Elections in 2015
Financier and philanthropist George Soros and his wife, Tamiko Bolton, at the German Foreign Ministry on June 8, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. Sean Gallup/Getty Images
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Billionaire activist George Soros helped fund Democratic efforts to flip Georgia, Arizona, and Florida in the recent midterm elections, and he nearly ran the table. All three states had razor-thin margins of victory in either U.S. Senate or gubernatorial races—or both in Florida’s case—and all three states are traditionally Republican-leaning, if not Republican strongholds.

While Soros is indeed a controversial figure often accused of wild conspiracies, the strategy of turning select “red states” Democrat blue is laid out in his Open Society Foundations documents. According to a white paper called “U.S. Programs 2015–2018 Strategy,” the progressive organization began funding activist operations in Arizona and Georgia in 2015, with the 2020 presidential election being the ultimate goal.