A group with close ties to the conservative Club for Growth has launched a new political action committee aimed at keeping former President Donald Trump from winning the GOP presidential nomination in 2024.
The Win it Back PAC filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday, showing deep ties to the influential Club for Growth group, whose leaders have come out against the former president in recent months. The filing lists the PAC’s designated agent as David McIntosh, Club for Growth’s president, who came out publicly against Trump earlier this year.
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“The party should be open to another candidate,” McIntosh told reporters in February.
The filing also lists Adam Rozansky as the PAC’s treasurer, serving in the same role he does for the Club for Growth.
Win it Back’s goal is to target Trump during the primary cycle and boost other GOP contenders, according to Politico. It’s not clear how much money the group intends to spend in the months leading up to the primary election or how exactly members will seek to attack the former president.
The Washington Examiner contacted spokespeople for both the Club for Growth and Win it Back but has not yet received responses.
The new political action committee is the club’s latest attack against Trump as he seeks a return to the Oval Office next year. The organization snubbed the former president earlier this year when it declined to invite Trump to its annual donor retreat in Palm Beach despite hosting a slew of other GOP presidential contenders.
The Club for Growth also began expanding its reach to host campaign events and conduct polling for other GOP candidates late last year, hinting at a growing desire within the Republican Party to scope out other options. The organization emerged as one of the former president’s staunchest allies during his time in the White House despite the group aggressively opposing his candidacy in 2016.
Trump attacked the club earlier this year after it came out in opposition to some of the former president’s handpicked candidates in the midterm elections. At one point, the former president even referred to the group as “The Club For NO Growth.”
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Trump’s campaign team brushed off the threat of Win it Back, suggesting the effort has no teeth in overcoming his frontrunner status.
“Their goal is to maintain their shady influence over Washington because they know President Trump stands in their way as he protects Americans from these vultures,” Trump campaign senior consultant Chris LaCivita told the Washington Examiner. “These swamp dwellers will be crushed — without mercy and without remorse — and put back under the bridges where all trolls reside.”
