While Donald Trump was busy wooing supporters Monday evening in Las Vegas, two Republican consultants quietly launched a super political action committee aimed at taking him down.
For weeks, former Republican National Committee staffer Liz Mair and Florida-based consultant Rick Wilson have been crafting a “guerilla campaign” against the GOP candidate, who sits second in the Washington Examiner‘s presidential power rankings. At around 9 p.m. ET Monday evening, they finally took to Twitter to solicit the help of others.
Ready to dump Trump? We are, too. Donate here: https://t.co/UY2uTw5W8F cc @LizMair @TheRickWilson
— Make America Awesome (@MakeUSAAwesome) December 15, 2015
A website for the newly formed super PAC, which is named Make America Awesome because “America is already great,” asks supporters to “help us block and reverse Donald Trump’s political ascent” by subscribing to their email list and/or making a donation.
“Our focus is on using unconventional and cost-effective tactics, as opposed to stereotypical high-cost, limited-yield methods with the objective of providing maximum donor value,” the website states.
Within minutes of the PAC’s debut on Twitter Monday, Mair and Wilson were engaging followers and joking about their target.
“Does it help if I tell you that Rick, I and the others involved don’t plan actual violence?” Mair tweeted at a skeptic. She was presumably referring to Trump’s supporters’ violent threats against hecklers at his rally that same evening.
According to another tweet by the PAC itself, supporters who contribute just $25 help buy “one spot hitting Trump on targeted [New Hampshire] radio.”
Federal Election Commission records show the super PAC is based in Alexandria, Va., and was formally registered with the FEC on Dec. 7, just over a week before Trump is set to take center stage Tuesday night at the final GOP debate of 2015.
Mair did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for further details about the PAC’s operations.
