The conservative group Club for Growth is letting GOP congressional candidates know that endorsing Donald Trump could well come with consequences—the loss of CFG's financial backing, reports Burgess Everett:
The conservative group, which specializes in supporting outsider candidates that challenge centrist-leaning Republicans, is actively considering denying endorsements to any candidate that endorses Trump while the primary is still being contested, according to a source familiar with the Club's endorsement process. The reason: The Club hates Trump's "liberal views on economic policy."
With an eye toward preserving the GOP's Senate majority, the group is also poring money into the presidential contest in hopes of blunting Trump's delegate edge.
David McIntosh, the president of the Club, said in an interview on Monday that the group has put about $1 million in Arkansas and Oklahoma in the hopes of hurting Trump in a couple of states where his rivals Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are within striking distance.
"Our polling shows that it’s close enough in several of these winner take-all-states that if there’s a real advertising campaign, he’ll come in no. 2," McIntosh said. "Now’s the time and a lot is at stake, or we’re going to lose the Senate and the Supreme Court."
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