Some major conservative campaign donors won’t be backing former President Donald Trump as he heads into the 2024 presidential election cycle.
The influential anti-tax Club for Growth is shunning Mr. Trump when it hosts a half-dozen potential Republican candidates at its donor summit in Florida next month. And the deep-pocketed Americans for Prosperity, founded by the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers, also made clear that the group will throw its support behind a candidate other than Mr. Trump.
The Club for Growth has invited Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is considered the most viable likely challenger to Mr. Trump, along with former South Carolina governor and U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, who is set to announce her presidential bid Wednesday; former Vice President Mike Pence; former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina; and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin.Mr.
Steven Cheung, a spokesman for Mr. Trump, said Club for Growth “endorsed 24 candidates during the 2022 midterm election and lost 25% of them. On the other hand, President Trump had 233 wins out of 253 races.” “Here’s the hard truth as I see it,” Ms. Seidel said in her memo. “The Republican Party is nominating bad candidates who are advocating for things that go against core American principles. And the American people are rejecting them. The Democratic Party increasingly sees this as a political opportunity. And they’re responding with more and more extreme policies – policies that also go against our core American principles.
But AFP and AFP Action have a broad network to help with a ground game. They participated in more than 450 races in the 2022 midterms, knocked on more than 7 million doors and sent out more than 100 million mail pieces, Ms. Seidel said. A Monmouth University Poll released last week showed Mr. DeSantis ahead of Mr. Trump, 53% to 40%, in a hypothetical head-to-head match-up.
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