A group of Republicans has launched a new super PAC that aims to provide support to Republican lawmakers who voted to impeach or condemn ex President Trump
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Founders, including allies of the Rep. Adam Kinzinger
Adam Daniel KinzingerNew super PAC aims to support lawmakers who voted to impeach or condemn Trump’s tears in Biden, critics of the Republican Party in the first post-presidential speech Kinzinger: GOP ‘is certainly not united’ in ‘vision for the future’ MORE (R-Ill.), A staunch critic of the former president, started PAC, called Americans Keeping the Country First, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.
The super PAC describes himself as the only one “dedicated exclusively to defending members of Congress who took votes of conscience for impeachment or condemning President Trump after protesters stormed the Capitol complex on January 6, 2021.”
Americans keeping the country first will serve as a nonprofit sister to Kinzinger’s own PAC, which he launched earlier this month to combat “Trumpism” and will aim to “build a base army,” the Post reported, citing documents.
Mario Castillo, one of the group’s advisers, told the Post in a statement that the new PAC “has a clearly defined mission to provide air coverage to members of Congress who have taken votes of conscience for impeachment or condemnation of President Trump.”
Kinzinger, who was one of 10 House Republicans who voted for Trump’s impeachment last month, started the Country First PAC to raise funds against a “huge list” of members, such as representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Matt Gaetz
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The new PAC is expected to support the 10 Republican members of the House and the Sen. Lisa Murkowski
Lisa Ann MurkowskiNew super PAC aims to support lawmakers who voted to impeach or condemn Trump Kinzinger: GOP ‘certainly not united’ in ‘vision for the future’ Graham: Trump will be ‘useful’ to all Senate Republican Party holders MORE (R-Alaska), which will have elections in 2022, in the primary and general elections. Trump said he plans to support the primary challenges to Republicans who crossed him and Kinzinger is already set to face a pro-Trump challenger in the primaries, who announced his campaign earlier this month.
Castillo predicted that Americans who hold the country first will have solid funding before the primaries, after receiving “real interest” from Republican donors.
The announcement of the new super PAC comes as Trump plans to maintain his support as the Republican Party leader after his second impeachment, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Sunday.
The launch also follows as The Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump GOP group, faced calls to close amid allegations of a toxic work environment.