Club for Growth, a group focused on economic prosperity, is endorsing Donald Trump for the 2024 general election. What makes this particularly shocking is that the group had previously spent millions of dollars in ads against Trump.
Club for Growth has clashed with more conservative wings of the Republican Party, especially on issues such as immigration. Following a failure to defeat Trump in the primary, the group now fully endorses Trump as the best way to get the US economy back on track. America’s News Desk has the story:
One of the biggest political groups in the country has “mended fences” with Donald Trump as the 2024 general election begins to take shape.
Last summer, Win It Back, a political action committee affiliated with the Club for Growth, spent millions on anti-Trump advertisements in Iowa and South Carolina, hoping to topple the former president.
In September, the Club for Growth’s president, David McIntosh, acknowledged to donors that “all attempts to undermine his conservative credentials on specific issues were ineffective.”
“It was a stunning admission,” reported The New Republic, “and an unsurprising one at the same time. It was also one that revealed just how much influence the Club for Growth—and, by extension, the anti-tax, anti-spending wing that has dominated the conservative movement for more than four decades—has lost.”
On Friday evening, Trump decided to bury the hatchet, speaking at the group’s economic retreat in Palm Springs, Florida.
In an interview with Fox News, McIntosh said it was crucial for the GOP to unite to defeat Biden.
“It’s time for Republicans to unite and put our differences aside,” he explained. “We need to work together to make sure Biden is a one-term president. We need to grow our majority in the House and reclaim the majority in the Senate. We need to restore the American Dream, and the only we can do that is by working together.”
He added: “President Trump always says, ‘When Trump and the Club for Growth are together, we always win.’ And together we are going to win back the White House and more this November.”
Trump has so far dominated the Republican primary and currently leads in polling against Joe Biden.
In 2016, Trump did not coalesce the Republican Party like he is now. While he still won, he did benefit from following two Democrat terms. Covid cut the possibility of a second term, but Biden’s having to deal with crisis after crisis could make Trump look like the beacon of stability this time around.
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