Pence PAC shaping Republican governor races, with an eye on 2020

[DonViejo]

By DANIEL STRAUSS and MATTHEW NUSSBAUM 02/12/2018 01:40 PM EST Updated 02/12/2018 02:00 PM EST

The political arm for Vice President Mike Pence has been quietly boosting select Republicans in key gubernatorial races in the 2018 election cycle.

In the short term, it’s an effort to increase the possibility that Republican candidates or governors running for reelection have an easier time winning their primaries and then the general elections in their states. Longer-term, it’s a move to strengthen the ranks of loyalists to President Donald Trump and Pence and prepare for 2020.

Pence’s Great America Committee PAC distributed over $40,000 to a handful of Republican gubernatorial candidates, including incumbents, in the second half of 2017, according to the committee’s most recent filing with the Federal Election Commission. Those candidates included Govs. Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Kim Reynolds of Iowa, as well as those running in contested primaries, like Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt, Rep. Diane Black in Tennessee and Rep. Ron DeSantis in Florida. Black and DeSantis are running in contested primaries, and even though both are serious candidates, it’s not assured that they will win their respective nominations.

There’s an incentive for Pence and his political team to stick their necks out ever so slightly for these candidates early in the midterm election cycle, said Doug Gross, a former chief of staff to former Gov. Terry Branstad of Iowa.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/12/pence-pac-republican-governor-races-404207

[redstatebluegirl]

1. Even more of a reason we need a pac funded by real people to offset these nuts.

We must go out and deny what they are saying.