GOP-aligned groups pour cash into Democratic primaries to tilt key races

Federal Election Commission filings show conservative groups funded liberal-sounding super PACs that spent hundreds of thousands boosting Democratic primary contenders across multiple states to influence general-election matchups; notable moves include Lead Left PAC's more than $750,000 buy in Texas' 35th District that helped Maureen Galindo (who lost the runoff), with Real Change PAC and California Blue PAC active in New Jersey, Maine and California; Democrats condemned the meddling as a tactic in the post-Citizens United campaign-finance era.