“House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and his leadership team are quietly working to prop up some of the GOP incumbents targeted by former President Donald Trump, putting the California Republican directly in the crosshairs of the right as he seeks to win back the majority” CNN reports.
“Half of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for inciting the January 6 insurrection – Reps. David Valadao of California, Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington state, John Katko of New York, and Fred Upton and Peter Meijer, both of Michigan – participate in a joint fundraising committee with McCarthy and his leadership PAC, which has raised roughly $100,000 for each of the five campaigns in the first half of the year. The committee – known as Take Back the House 2022 – has not raised money for the other five lawmakers: Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio, Dan Newhouse of Washington state and Tom Rice of South Carolina, according to the latest Federal Election Commission filings. However, McCarthy’s leadership group, Majority Committee PAC, donated $10,000 to Gonzalez’s campaign at the end of March.”