The GOP Establishment is gunning for Donald Trump. The billionaire real estate mogul signed the party’s pledge to endorse the nominee if the RNC would play nice and give him a fair shot at the nomination. Since then, Trump has held and solidified a commanding double digit lead over every candidate not named Ben Carson. On the verge of being rendered irrelevant, the GOP consultant class is taking action:
Republican donors with links to several presidential candidates – as well as a prominent GOP operative – are pooling their resources in a new effort to go after Donald Trump and keep the party’s presidential front-runner from winning the nomination.
The most recent bid is a reported “guerrilla campaign” led by a group called Trump Card LLC and run by Liz Mair, former communications official for the Republican National Committee.
The group’s goal, according to The Wall Street Journal, is to collect money from anonymous donors to “defeat and destroy” Trump, who has essentially led the GOP presidential field since declaring his candidacy this summer.
Further, the super PAC supporting fellow GOP candidate and Ohio Gov. John Kasich is planning to air attack ads against Trump in New Hampshire. And, in a sign of the project’s appeal among donors, it is starting to get funding from donors backing candidates other than Kasich.
This should be interesting. Trump supporters are calling out the RNC, but this is really an amalgamation of politicos who believe Trump is a threat to conservatism and the established order. To date, the professional political class has got Trump all wrong, focusing on his lack of conservatism on issues that haven’t moved the base at all in recent elections. At the end of the day, Trump’s consistent platform built around border security and a commitment to the restoration of national pride and prosperity has proved wildly popular. Unless Marco Rubio can muster something similar, Trump remains the presumptive favorite.
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