Soros-backed PAC helped sweep woke doctor Dems into Congress

A dark-money backed group funded by lefty kingmakers George Soros and his son Alex helped propel a record number of Democratic doctors and scientists into Congress, where they are expected to inject woke, identity-driven, leftist ideology into the nation’s health agenda next year.Many of the 19 lawmakers voted in this week built careers on topics such as race, DEI, climate change and gun control as their No.1 target.The ideological army includes Dr.

Annie Andrews (D-S.C.), a first-time politician whose campaign was considered a long shot before she won the Senate seat long held by the late Sen.Lindsey Graham, defeating his sister and successor, Sen.

Darline Graham.Andrews, 46, a pediatrician, has voiced her support for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors, proclaiming last year “gender affirming care isn’t child abuse” — and her 63 research papers includes a slew of political and identity-themed studies.Even though her clinical specialty is asthma and that was the focus of her initial body of research, she took a decidedly woke turn around 2020, since then authoring nines studies on firearms alone, including a 2020 paper entitled “Pediatric Hospitalists at the Front Line of Gun Violence” that promoted responsible weapons storageShe also co-authored “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Utilization of Tonsillectomy among Medicaid-Insured Children” in the Journal of Pediatrics in 2022, where she argued for developing “culturally appropriate interventions.”In 2024, she penned an op-ed in JAMA titled “It is time to get political for children,” stating she was taking “a hard pivot into politics” for “the sick and injured kids I care for” because of gun safety, gender-affirming care and vaccines.Richard Pan (D-Calif.), a pediatrician who won on his first bid for federal office, recruited Sacramento parents in 2015 to launch “Vaccinate California,” a campaign to ban personal-belief exemptions for school vaccine requirements...