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McCarthy used $165 million in Congressional Leadership Fund to undermine Trump's chosen Candidates [1]
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Date: 2022-11-09
McCarthy wincing at something Trump said.
Thanks to a new piece in the WaPo I now see that Kevin McCarthy tried to take down Joe Kent back in the Washington Republican Primary. That effort failed. But he was successful in taking down Madison Cawthorn in his primary.
The fact is Kevin McCarthy was secretly working to undermine Donald Trump’s chosen candidates during the Republican primaries, with $165 million this 2022 election cycle.
How Kevin McCarthy’s political machine worked to sway the GOP field Allies spent millions in a sometimes secretive effort to weed out candidates who could cause the House leader trouble or jeopardize GOP victories in November By Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, Isaac Arnsdorf and Marianna Sotomayor
Much of the spending in Republican primaries by McCarthy’s political operation has been done out in the open by the House GOP’s largest super PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund, for which McCarthy has helped raise $165 million this cycle.
Madison Cawthorn at CPAC
CLF used a different McCarthy-aligned group this summer to intervene on behalf of Herrera Beutler, who earned Trump’s ire by voting for his impeachment in 2021. Kent, her Trump-endorsed challenger, opposed McCarthy as speaker, denied the legitimacy of the 2020 election and denounced the legal treatment of Jan. 6 rioters as “banana republic stuff.” But in the weeks before the Aug. 2 primary, two groups, WFW Action Fund and a previously unknown group called Conservatives for a Stronger America, began attacking Kent as a closeted leftist, with television ads misleadingly suggesting he wanted to “defund the police” or showing old photos of the former Army Special Forces officer sporting long hair alongside false claims that he supported Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). After Kent defeated Herrera Beutler in the primary, both PACs opposing him publicly reported contributions that tied their efforts to McCarthy’s allies. WFW Action Fund received transfers of nearly $1 million from CLF in the months before the ads.
At the time I was aware of these ads that were bizarrely attacking Joe Kent from the right, so I thought something fishy was going on. I was trying to guess who was behind them. Now we know it was the the Congressional Leadership Fund.
With this article, the war in the Republican Party between Donald Trump and Kevin McCarthy is now out in the open.
How will Mr. Trump react to Minority Leader McCarthy’s effrontery? I won’t be pretty.
Kevin McCarthy moves quickly to secure potential speakership as hard-right group weighs a long-shot challenge By Melanie Zanona and Manu Raju House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy is moving swiftly to lock down the votes to claim the speaker’s gavel as a hard-right faction of his conference discusses whether to mount a long-shot challenge to complicate his bid and force concessions in the process, according to multiple GOP sources.
And now speed is absolutely essential for Kevin McCarthy.
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