Club for Growth takes aim at impeachment backers Cheney, Anthony Gonzalez

Source: Politico | March 22, 2021 | Alex Isenstadt

The conservative organization is no stranger to taking on GOP incumbents in primaries.

A prominent conservative group is buttressing Donald Trump’s quest to exact revenge on his GOP critics, targeting two Republicans who backed the former president’s impeachment.

The anti-tax Club for Growth is endorsing Max Miller, a former Trump White House aide running to unseat Ohio Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, who was one of 10 House Republicans to vote for Trump’s impeachment. The conservative organization is also this week dispatching an official to Wyoming to meet with prospective challengers to GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, another impeachment backer.

Club for Growth President David McIntosh, a Trump ally who’s been in contact with the former president, argued the two members were natural targets because they had strayed ideologically on economic issues and their impeachment votes had made them politically vulnerable.

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The Gonzalez team fired back, saying that the Club had “a long history of failing to vet their endorsed candidates and costing Republicans elections.”

“It’s no surprise they would rush into yet another Republican primary without doing their homework,” added Josette Milli, Gonzalez’s campaign manager. “We have no doubt that a fully informed electorate will vote to reelect Anthony Gonzalez to a third term.”

Kevin Seifert, a Cheney political adviser, said the congresswoman “knows the Republican Party is the party of Reagan and must stand for fidelity to the constitution, limited government, low taxes, a strong national defense and competent conservative leadership. Apparently, the Club for Growth has a different agenda.”

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