'A crisis moment': New Politics launches $20 million push to recruit service-oriented candidates
Source: NBC News
March 27, 2025, 6:00 AM EDT
New Politics, a group focused on supporting candidates from service backgrounds, is launching a multimillion-dollar effort to recruit thousands of candidates over the next four years. And the congressman co-chairing the effort said it comes as the country faces “a crisis moment in political leadership.”
“When I talk to my constituents, they sense that we have a fundamental lack of leadership in the country right now and are desperate for integrity and courage and authenticity and candor and honesty, and they’re not feeling that,” Rep. Pat Ryan, D-N.Y., said in an interview. “It’s the exception rather than the rule in both parties.”
Ryan is co-chairing the group’s new recruitment effort, powered by $20 million, which will aim to recruit 5,000 candidates up and down the ballot over the next four years, according to an announcement shared first with NBC News. New Politics, which has a nonprofit arm and a political committee-style arm, is bipartisan and has worked with some Republicans but mostly with Democrats.
Ryan, an Army veteran, said he would not be in Congress without support from New Politics, which was founded in 2014 to recruit candidates with military and service backgrounds, including Peace Corps and AmeriCorps alums, and help them navigate the ins and outs of running for office.
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