ILLINOIS — An AIPAC-aligned super PAC seeded two anonymous groups that spent more than $14 million to influence House Democratic primaries in Illinois. Federal fundraising reports filed on Friday showed that United Democracy Project contributed $5.3 million to Elect Chicago Women and Affordable Chicago Now!, which together raised $14.1 million.

United Democracy Project receives tens of millions of dollars from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Donors to United Democracy Project contributed additional millions of dollars to Elect Chicago Women and Affordable Chicago Now!. United Democracy Project, Elect Chicago Women, and Affordable Chicago Now! together accounted for 60% of outside spending in Illinois House primaries this year.

Elect Chicago Women spent more than $5 million in the Democratic primary for Illinois's 9th Congressional District. The group initially supported State Senator Laura Fine but later ran advertisements attacking Daniel Biss. Elect Chicago Women ceased spending on advertisements against Biss after he remained an opponent in the primary. Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss won the Democratic primary.

United Democracy Project spent $5 million to support Chicago Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin's campaign in the Democratic primary for Illinois's 7th Congressional District. Conyears-Ervin lost the Democratic primary. Former U.S. Representative Melissa Bean and Cook County Commissioner Donna Miller won Democratic primaries in Illinois.

"UDP was happy to support these local committees, along with Chicago donors, to make sure pro-Israel voices would have their voices heard," said Patrick Dorton, UDP spokesman. "Like many other groups, we are using a number of different tools to engage in races this cycle."

"We are going to use every tool in the toolbox to try to get the best possible, pro-Israel results," he said. "At the end of the day, AIPAC is focused on making sure we have the largest, bipartisan pro-Israel majority in Congress."

"By any measure the Chicago delegation is more pro-Israel today than it was before the primary election," Dorton said.

"AIPAC found out the hard way: The 9th District is not for sale," said Daniel Biss, Evanston Mayor.

"If 'being pro-Israel was good politics or policy', like AIPAC says, they wouldn't have to completely avoid mentioning Israel in $21 million of ads and using shell PACs to hide their spending," said Usamah Andrabi, Communications Director.

"No candidate who made AIPAC or Israel a centerpiece of their campaign won in Chicago, with the exception of Biss," Dorton said. "Obviously we have our differences with Daniel Biss but at least he's a Zionist — and he's far better than Kat Abughazaleh."

Recent polling found that two-thirds of Democratic voters say their sympathies lie more with Palestinians than with Israelis. Recent polling found that a majority of Democratic voters have a negative view of Israel.