# AI PACs spent millions trying to shape Congress. Here’s how they fared.

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/ai-pacs-spent-millions-trying-to-shape-congress-heres-how-they-fared/
- Published: 2026-11-04T22:45:09+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-04T23:04:51+00:00
- Original publisher: TechCrunch
- Original article: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/04/ai-pacs-spent-millions-trying-to-shape-congress-heres-how-they-fared/
- Topics: AI, Elections, Government, Politics, Technology

## Key points

- AI-related political spending produced mixed results in the midterms.
- Several candidates receiving substantial backing lost their races.
- Leading the Future spent $27.38 million in primaries.

## Summary

Political groups supporting and opposing the AI industry spent millions trying to influence Tuesday’s US midterm elections and shape future AI regulation, but their results were mixed. Several heavily funded candidates lost, and the broader Democratic gains make it difficult to tell how much AI-related spending affected individual races.

Industry-backed American Mission and Building the Future spent $4.8 million supporting South Carolina Senate candidate Darline Graham, who lost; American Mission also spent more than $500,000 each backing two losing House candidates in Montana and North Carolina. Leading the Future’s Democratic group, Think Big, backed Florida Representative Jared Moskowitz, who won re-election. Safeguards advocates also had mixed results: Public First backed losing Republicans but had more success with Democrats, while Guardrails Alliance spent more than $1 million opposing two losing candidates and $300,000 supporting Angela Gonzales-Torres, who defeated one of them. Leading the Future said it focused more on primaries, spending $27.38 million there, including $8 million against Alex Bores, who lost his June congressional primary.

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