RALEIGH, N.C. – An advocacy group plans to spend millions next year to elect more doctors, scientists and other professionals to office, arguing the pandemic and Donald Trump's handling of it have powerfully underscored a need to bring people with scientific backgrounds into policymaking.
314 Action, a nonprofit organization with offices in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., says it is aiming to spend $50 million in next year's congressional races, much of it targeted at helping Democrats pick up competitive U.S.
Senate seats in North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The group formed months before Trump's presidency, but its mission took on new urgency as he pulled out of the Paris climate agreement, spread false claims about wind energy