The political network of influential groups financed by powerful conservative billionaire Charles Koch plans to oppose the 2024 presidential candidacy of former President Donald Trump, according to an Americans for Prosperity official.
— and will actively look to back an alternative during the Republican presidential primary, according to an Americans for Prosperity official. shared with CBS News, AFP chief executive Emily Seidel wrote to supporters and donors that"the best thing for the country would be to have a president in 2025 who represents a new chapter."
AFP has sat out the past couple of GOP presidential cycles, but the group now joins the conservative Club for Growth in openly working to oppose Trump's 2024 candidacy. Several of the party's biggest individual donors, such as finance billionaires Kenneth C. Griffin and Stephen A. Schwarzman, have also signaled their opposition to Trump's current campaign — but others are holding back for now.
The move marks the most notable example to date of an overt and coordinated effort from within conservative circles to stop Trump from winning the GOP nomination for a third straight presidential election. Some Republicans have grown increasingly frustrated with Trump after disappointing midterm elections in which he drew blame for elevating flawed candidates and polarizing ideas.
Trump doesn't have any formal GOP opponents yet, but his former ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley, is
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