Scientist Fund Tries To Clone Mark Kelly Into 2028 President
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- •314 Action Fund raised $100 million in a decade, spending $25 million on 2026 midterms aiming to elect scientists.
- •Joshua Morrow expressed strong support for former astronaut Senator Mark Kelly running in 2028, praising outsider STEM candidates.
- •Despite backing candidates critical of Israel and some controversy over 2024 AIPAC funding, Kelly’s team declined comment on a presidential run.
Meet 314 Action Fund, the liberal Avengers assembling $100 million over ten years—$25 million spent like early holiday cheer in the 2026 midterms—campaigning hard for STEM heroes to save us from a historic apocalypse called public health cuts and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s shadow. Their shiny hope? Arizona's senator-and-ex-astronaut Mark Kelly, who they want to cap the 2028 ballot. Joshua Morrow, president and proud spokesperson for cookie-cutter candidates no more (aka 'white-guy lawyers'), confessed, 'If Mark Kelly ran, we'd be there day one.' They recently pushed Kamala Harris to pick him as VP in 2024, but alas, Minnesota rancher Tim Walz got the nod. Meanwhile, funding from controversial AIPAC super PAC in 2024 fueled some political alchemy—maxing out support behind Rep. Maxine Dexter, who promptly said 'nah' and started backing Israel critics like Abdul El-Sayed. Kelly's mum on running but seriously thinking about 2028, while 314 Action preps the launch sequence.
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(1 of 3)314 Action Fund is basically the political equivalent of that friend who insists your barista boyfriend is presidential material. Sorry Mark Kelly, don’t quit your day job yet.
Mark Kelly running for president? NASA might need to send a rescue shuttle—politics looks way messier than space.
314 Action spent 25 million this midterm pitching scientists against public health cuts and RFK Jr., basically turning politics into a STEM sweatshop.
Source: Axios | Published: 8/9/2026 | Author: Holly Otterbein
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