Donald Trump presidential campaign aides are expected to meet with representatives of Charles and David Koch’s political network.
Trump’s team requested the meeting and representatives of the Kochs’ political network agreed to meet, said James Davis, a spokesman for Freedom Partners, a right-leaning organization within the Koch’s political network. Mark Holden, senior vice president of Koch Industries, Inc., will be among the Kochs’ representatives attending the meeting.
“We are happy to talk to anybody and hope they understand where we’re coming from, and they will have more constructive positions than they’ve had,” Charles Koch told USA Today, who first reported the meeting.
There is no date for the meeting yet, but Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks said the campaign’s policy team would meet in “the next week or so” in search of common ground with the Kochs’ political network.
The GOP mega-donor duo previously pulled out of the festivities surrounding this summer’s GOP convention after Trump began to emerge as the likely Republican nominee. While reports suggested the Koch’s network would become less involved in national politics, they have plans to spend big in Senate races nationwide.
The Kochs’ network appears to have avoided presidential politics in 2016 and has denied any involvement in supporting a third party presidential candidate, but it’s unclear what might change after a rendezvous with the Trump team.
