Posted on 03/02/2016 1:51:25 PM PST by jimbo123
Florida is set to become a last-gasp for Republican donors desperate to stop Donald Trump, with major anti-Trump groups coordinating their strategies and pouring millions into a frantic effort to defeat the billionaire in Marco Rubio’s home state primary on March 15.
After the GOP front-runner’s domination of Super Tuesday, Florida is “going to be a very very important state to stop Trump in and I suspect there will be no place we will be more invested than there,” said Katie Packer, a former senior adviser to Mitt Romney to runs the main anti-Trump group, Our Principles PAC. Asked whether the anti-Trump group would also run attack ads against the billionaire in Ohio – the other March 15 winner-take-all state where donors hope to stop Trump – Packer said, “As long as it looks like Kasich will beat him in Ohio there might not be a need to.”
“We are only going up in places where we think” Trump poses a threat, she added.
Stuart Roy, a spokesman for the main non-profit group attacking Trump – American Future Fund (AFF) – said his group is coordinating its anti-Trump strategy with Packer's super-PAC.
“We definitely talk to Katie… and share research,” Roy told The Hill in a telephone interview on Wednesday.
“The main thing is you don’t want to duplicate effort. As you know we are in a compressed timeframe [to stop Trump] and we need to be effective.”
American Future Fund, which can hide the identities of its donors due to its non-profit status, received a new cash boost on Monday, according to Roy. The group is now on television in Florida with $1.75 million of fresh attack ads painting Trump as a fraud who duped working people out of their money through his controversial Trump University.
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This should be worth a few more points for Trump.
“Katie Packer, a former senior adviser to Mitt Romney to runs the main anti-Trump group”
I think Mitt Romney is behind a lot of the recent stop Trump movement.
If there was a brokered convention Romney would probably be the GOP nominee.
Our principles pack Pac headed by Romney ‘s former aide has contributors from the left and the right including Robert Mercer and George Soros.
Absolutely correct. Romney is in this thing right up to his ears
They’re just pissing into the wind.
...against America!
Wait. They plan to spend billions in the hopes that Rubio can WIN HIS OWN STATE?
ROTFL.
Seems almost every story I have read on the net today is echoing the same thing and claiming the world is out to get Trump. My guess its more of the media trying to incite someone, anyone to do what they can to defeat Trump. So far, it doesn’t seem to be working and their all out “super blitz” is failing.
Good luck with that....as someone undecided, I can tell any lurkers for the GOPe here that my vote in two weeks will NOT be influenced for ANY candidate who LIES about another.
I know that Rubio didn’t steal from the GOP.
I know that Cruz didn’t support amnesty.
I know that Trump doesn’t support the KKK.
Anyone trying to tell me otherwise gets a black mark in my book.
Hope they lose a lot of money.
W@ell, if this is the war they want, then it should be open season on Romney and the identified mega donors. No quarter. Romney business deals, crony relations, etc. all exposed.
ROMNEY CAN’T STAND TO SEE ANYONE WIN because he is a
LOSER!!!! SCREW YOU!!!
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