Despite once telling The New York Times that he has “no political background … no political agenda,” Sorkin seems heavily invested in the Democratic party.
On OpenSecrets.org, a site that states they are “Following the Money in Politics,” Sorkin’s name is listed more than 70 times for making donations to various candidates and campaigns between 1999 and 2021. Recipients on the list included groups like the Progressive Patriots Fund ($1,000), Our Common Values PAC ($5,000 collectively), and the Democratic National Committee (multiple thousands), to name a few, as well as individual U.S. House of Representative candidates and even Barack Obama (at least $4,800) and President Joe Biden ($2,800).
According to a 2012 article in Forbes, OpenSecrets.org is actually missing an additional amount of Sorkin’s donations, which were housed on the no longer active ‘Huffington Post’s Fundrace Database’ site. “Fundrace also shows a $35,800 contribution to Obama Victory Fund 2012 that does not appear on OpenSecrets.org, for some reason,” Forbes concluded. The outlet’s report is a decade old, and Sorkin’s current donation tallies aren’t confirmed. Exact totals aside, it’s clear that star-studded funds have their fair share of political pull.
