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Koch wants to buy a new GOP President- just like in 2016 and 2020
Koch network to support DeSantis?Top Republican donors release plan to defeat Trump for GOP nomination in 2024 and chose a candidate who 'represents a new chapter'
Charles Koch's donor network said it will not be backing Trump's bid for office"
February 5, 2023
The declaration was made by brass at Americans for Prosperity Action Sunday
The move comes as the donor group sat out the two most recent GOP elections
The deep-pocketed donor network associated with billionaire Charles Koch and his late brother David has said it will not be backing Donald Trump's next bid for office.
The declaration, made by brass at Americans for Prosperity Action in a memo to staffers Sunday, did not specify which candidate would receive the prospective funding, but vowed it would not be the embattled ex-head of state.
While not mentioning Trump by name, the CEO of the Kochs' main political arm offered a not-so-subtle jab at the former president, who during his tenure often sparred with Koch officials over his administration's trade and immigration policies.
The move, first reported by The Washington Post, comes asthe donor group created by the billionaire industrialist brothers elected to sit out the two most recent GOP elections, where Trump, 76, twice surfaced as a frontrunner.
Emily Seidel - head executive of Koch's Americans for Prosperity - wrote that the group seeks to 'turn the page on the past' and 'write a new chapter for our country' with its newly announced political backing.
'The loudest voice in each political party sets the tone for the entire election,' Seidel wrote, before adding, 'In a presidential year, that's the presidential candidate.
'And to write a new chapter for our country,' she continued, we need to turn the page on the past. So. the best thing for the country would be to have a president in 2025 who represents a new chapter.'
Seidel would go on to cite 'the broken politics' and 'toxic situation' she said were major influencers in the grassroots group's choice to back a nameless, non-Trump candidate's prospective bid for president.
Sauce/more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11715841/Koch-network-releases-plan-defeat-Trump-GOP-nomination-2024.html
Just like 2016 & 2020 but Wapo thinks this is big news. Koch approves of the illegal alien invasion and he's pumping up DeSantis. Will DeSantis take the money? What does that say about the already sus DeSantis? Koch wants a Chief Executive that is beholden to him, plain and simple and with POTUS he didn't get that. Koch is in with CAP, the Podesta crew.
Flashback January 13, 2019
Koch Donor Network Will Not Support Trump in 2020, but Will Promote Permanent Legal Status for Dreamers
Politically powerful billionaire Charles Koch will not lobby for President Donald Trump if he runs for re-election in the 2020 contest, Time reported. But the Koch donor network will advocate for establishing permanent legal status for Dreamers, undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, recipients are often called Dreamers, after the DREAM Act—Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors—which offered many of the same protections but never passed Congress.)
Koch will also focus his immense influence on gubernatorial and congressional races, prioritizing issues including poverty and drug addiction, the article said.
"We are making significant investments to unite the country and address critical issues that will help people improve their lives," Koch spokesman James Davis told Time. "This starts with a major new initiative to fight poverty in America, and following on the success of the First Step Act in December continuing to build broad-based policy coalitions on issues from education reform to immigration. These will include a significant investment to support policy champions in Senate, House and state races. This is where we can make the biggest difference for millions of Americans."
Charles and David Koch have long wielded their enormous wealth to support far-right politics but did not overtly promote Trump during the 2016 election. They have recently been attempting to re-brand themselves as more benevolent.
https://www.newsweek.com/koch-network-wont-support-trump-2020-1278141
July 13, 2019
Why It Makes Sense That Soros and Koch Are Uniting to Fund a New Anti-War Think Tank
The group wants to challenge the bipartisan reliance on military force.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/soros-koch-anti-war-quincy-institute.html