Jonathan Swan
The Hill
John Boehner’s worst nightmare may soon be Donald Trump’s.
Top officials at the influential free-market group Club for Growth are debating how far to escalate their attacks on Trump's presidential candidacy.
Fresh from Club for Growth's Twitter fight with Trump on Tuesday night, the group's president, David McIntosh, wants to warn every conservative voter he can about the economic policies of the GOP front-runner.
McIntosh says his members will not abide Trump’s views about taxes (“he wants to raise them”) or trade (“he wants to start a trade war with China and Mexico”). He also praised Jeb Bush’s recent attack video that exposes Trump’s history of liberal views.
Asked how far he would go to destroy Trump's candidacy, McIntosh would not rule out using Club for Growth's super-PAC to blitz the billionaire during the lead up to the primaries
Such a move would be an unusually aggressive intervention in a GOP presidential primary, he said, citing as precedent the group’s 2008 efforts, when it spent heavily against Mike Huckabee for his record on taxes and spending as Arkansas governor.
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