The industry’s support didn’t go unnoticed. The open seat drew a massive number of Democratic candidates to replace outgoing Rep. Steny Hoyer, and Maryland’s U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen bashed the “obscene amount of big special-interest money” Boafo received in the race.
In the same state, Fairshake backed incumbent Representative April McClain Delaney for $516,000, while also contributing ad spending in other states’ Tuesday primaries to Republican incumbent Representative Blake Moore in Utah and $1.3 million for one of the industry’s most reliable allies in the House, Representative Ritchie Torres, a New York Democrat. All of them also won their races or were winning, with McClain Delaney in an early lead with votes still being counted.
The most recent Federal Election Commission filings showed Fairshake with about $126 million still on-hand at the end of last month. But it’s spending heavily on the way to the November general elections in which the two-year destiny of the U.S. Congress will be decided.
If Boafo contributes to the rise of a new Democratic majority in the House, the crypto industry will have a campaign-finance bond with him and other Democrats the PAC has supported. A Democratic majority is set at 79% odds in betting on prediction market platform Kalshi, and if the party earns that status, it’ll have chairmanships of all the committees, complete with control of the chamber’s agenda and subpoena power.
