The Club for Growth now loves Trump again
Politico reported earlier this month that Donald Trump "appear[s] to have made peace" with the Club for Growth, but the hard-line group's on-again, off-again hostilities with Trump are still causing trouble for at least one of its endorsed candidates.
A rival super PAC called Conservatives for American Excellence is airing an ad in North Carolina's 6th Congressional District blasting former college football player Bo Hines as insufficiently conservative.
"Now after claiming to be MAGA, he's backed by the same D.C. losers that spent millions attacking President Trump," the narrator intones as the screen shows a Truth Social post of Trump castigating the Club as "political misfits, globalists, and losers."
While it's not clear whom, if anyone, the PAC supports in the busy March 5 GOP primary, the outfit has so far spent $430,000 hitting Hines. The Club, by contrast, has aired spots slamming another candidate, former Rep. Mark Walker. But it's another hopeful, lobbyist Addison McDowell, who has actually secured Trump's backing, and he's airing a new commercial featuring footage of Trump praising him at a recent rally.