Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) was in Washington on Wednesday evening to participate in a Q&A with the American Opportunity Alliance, an exclusive group of wealthy Republican donors who provide millions of dollars in crucial funding to the party’s top presidential contenders.
Eager to offset a Democratic advantage among so-called dark money groups, wealthy pro-Trump conservatives like Peter Thiel are involved in efforts to wield greater influence outside the traditional party machinery.
By Alexander Burns And Kenneth P. Vogel, Politico, February 18, 2014
A group of major GOP donors, led by New York billionaire
Paul Singer, is quietly expanding its political footprint ahead of the midterm elections in an increasingly assertive effort
to shape the direction of the Republican Party.
The operation was launched discreetly last year, with the previously unreported formation of a club called the American Opportunity Alliance to bring together some of the richest pro-business GOP donors in the country,
several of whom share Singer’s support for gay rights, immigration reform and the state of Israel. Around the same time, Singer and his allies also formed a federal fundraising committee called Friends for an American Majority that raised big checks for a select list of the GOP’s most highly touted 2014 Senate hopefuls.[More]
Trump Shadow Hard to Escape as 2024 Hopefuls Seek Spotlight Bloomberg 2 hrs ago Mark Niquette and Bill Allison
(Bloomberg) Republicans are converging on Florida this weekend at events to woo donors and celebrate former President Donald Trump while a new group of potential presidential candidates tries to emerge from his shadow.
Some Republican donors and consultants say they’re concerned that Trump’s own ability to fundraise could create competition for hard-to-win campaign cash and he might use it to fuel battles within the party that could hamper its effort to regain control of Congress in 2022.
Trump is dangling a possible 2024 campaign to regain the White House that could freeze fundraising and hiring for the dozen other possible contenders, who are attending the Republican National Committee donor retreat in Palm Beach with the hopes of gaining future support.