Credit: Fox News Radio
NEW YORK—The political network created by the billionaire Koch brothers announced plans to support eight House Republicans on Thursday, pledging financial resources and activists to help re-elect several vulnerable congressmen deemed “principled” conservatives.
The first wave of endorsements includes a handful of sometime-critics of President Donald Trump, particularly on immigration and spending.
The announcement comes a month after Trump assailed the Koch brothers as “a total joke in real Republican circles.” Days earlier, network patriarch Charles Koch had condemned the increased government spending under the Republican president’s leadership and Trump’s push for import tariffs.
Despite the clash with the White House, the Koch network remains one of the most powerful political organizations in the country. The sprawling organization is on pace to spend as much as $400 million on politics and policy ahead of November’s election. And its coalition of trained activists across 36 states has no rival.
The candidates backed by the network’s political arm, Americans for Prosperity, include eight men from seven states: Reps. Rod Blum and David Young of Iowa, Dave Brat of Virginia, Ted Budd of North Carolina, Steve Chabot of […]
In extreme gerrymandered NC it doesn’t matter, except in two districts, who you vote for the republicans win. That is unless this year they don’t what with trump and court orders but the lege says they can’t change things so close to the elections must wait to 2020. Might affect the blessed integrity of the voting process don’t you know.