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TRUMP’S ADVISORS AND MAGA OPERATIVES ARE WORKING TO ELECT COREY O’CONNOR

As Trump and Musk carry out their authoritarian takeover by ripping treatment from cancer patients, health care from veterans, and food from hungry children, the MAGA operatives who helped deliver the White House and Republican Trifecta to Trump are now working to take out the first Black Mayor of Pittsburgh.

It’s not just Trump’s donors giving O’Connor money because they know he’ll give in to them: O’Connor is actively courting the support of MAGA operatives. Donald Trump’s campaign consultants are working to help elect O’Connor, and he reportedly spent President’s Day meeting with these MAGA operatives.

KENT GATES
O’Connor attended a meeting hosted by Kent Gates, a MAGA operative and pollster for a Republican firm that Donald Trump’s campaign, the RNC, and Scott Perry paid millions to this cycle alone. [Source, Source, Source]

JEFF KENDALL
Helping to organize that meeting was Jeff Kendall, a MAGA operative who works for Jeffrey Yass: PA’s richest man, an anti-public school crusader, and a person who skirted campaign contribution laws by spending millions of his own fortune to bail out Trump’s social media company. Kendall was also the architect behind a shady PAC that tried to elect a Republican as Allegheny County Executive in 2023. [Source]

Click here to learn more about O’Connor’s MAGA Connections.

Corey O’Connors MAGA Ties

Corey O’connors MAGA Ties

TRUMP’S DONORS ARE BANKROLLING O’CONNOR’S CAMPAIGN:

Corey O’Connor has received at least $132,000 from donors who have given millions to Trump and MAGA Republicans. O’Connor received over $97,000 of MAGA money in January alone, representing 20% of his fundraising total from the month.

Meet Corey O’Connor’s MAGA Mega Donors:

HERB SHEAR
O’Connor received a maximum contribution from Herb Shear, a massive Republican donor who gave $60,000 to the Trump Victory Fund and nearly $700,000 to other Republican organizations that spent heavily to help Trump win in 2024. [Source]

KENT MCELHATTEN
O’Connor received a maximum contribution from Kent McElhatten, who gave more $300,000 total to help anti-abortion MAGA Republicans flip the Senate last cycle, including to Dave McCormick’s PAC. [Source]

JOHN STALEY IV
O’Connor received a maximum contribution from John Staley IV, a Trump supporter and lifetime Republican donor who has given tens of thousands of dollars to the Republican National Committee, Donald Trump, Dave McCormick, and Dr. Oz. [Source]

J. CLIFFORD FORREST
O’Connor received a maximum donation from J. Clifford Forrest, who gave $1 million to the Trump 2016 Inauguration Committee and $150,000 to PACs supporting Donald Trump. The big-money Republican donor and mining executive also gave nearly $200,000 to the Republican National Committee. [Source, Source, Source]

ROB ECKENRODE
O’Connor received a maximum contribution from Rob Eckenrode, a notorious Oakland slumlord who has received numerous fines and complaints for the conditions of his units. He has also contributed to right-wing politicians and organizations like Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and the Republican Senate Committee. [Source, Source]

THOMAS GREALISH
O’Connor received a maximum contribution from Thomas Grealish, a big-money donor who has given massive contributions to GOP U.S. House candidate Rob Mercuri and Ron Desantis’s anti-LGBTQ Super PAC. [Source]

TRUMP’S CONSULTANTS ARE WORKING TO ELECT O’CONNOR:

But it’s not just Trump’s donors giving O’Connor money because they know he’ll give in to them: O’Connor is actively courting the support of MAGA operatives. Donald Trump’s campaign consultants are working to help elect O’Connor, and he reportedly spent President’s Day meeting with these MAGA operatives.

KENT GATES
O’Connor attended a meeting hosted by Kent Gates, a MAGA operative and pollster for a Republican firm that Donald Trump’s campaign, the RNC, and Scott Perry paid millions to this cycle alone. [Source, Source, Source]

JEFF KENDALL
Helping to organize that meeting was Jeff Kendall, a MAGA operative who works for Jeffrey Yass: PA’s richest man, an anti-public school crusader, and a person who skirted campaign contribution laws by spending millions of his own fortune to bail out Trump’s social media company. Kendall was also the architect behind a shady PAC that tried to elect a Republican as Allegheny County Executive in 2023. [Source]