A leading progressive organization is surveying its members on whether it should launch a super PAC that aims to weaken the candidacy of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump.
In an email sent Tuesday to members of MoveOn.org, and later obtained by the Washington Examiner, the group claim it was recently “forced to recognize that it may take a major campaign to do what [Trump’s] Republican rivals could not: stop him before it’s too late.”
“That’s why we need to hear from you,” the email reads, before asking members to vote for or against MoveOn’s proposal to “launch a major campaign to show that our country rejects Donald Trump’s hate-baiting, racism, misogyny and violence.”
According to the email, such an offensive could potentially include “starting a super PAC to allow [MoveOn] to have the funds needed to run ads, hire organizers, reach millions of voters, and more, that would be used only for the general election?”
If members support the development of an anti-Trump super PAC, MoveOn spokesman Brian Stewart said it would be run “at the same time that we continue to organize and fight for Bernie Sanders to win the Democratic nomination.”
The organization endorsed Sanders in January after its members voted in a similar fashion to support his candidacy over Hillary Clinton’s.
MoveOn members currently have until April 2 to voice their support for, or opposition to an anti-Trump super PAC established by the organization.
Stewart was unable to provide an update to the Examiner about the type of feedback the group has received so far.
