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Craig, who started the Americans for Self-Rule PAC, said she already had some idea of whom her group could target next. Virginia Rep. Tom Garrett and Florida Sen.
Saxby Chambliss endorsed Handel, and she benefited from outside spending from Ending Spending Action Fund, a super PAC that backs establishment candidates.
Some formed a super PAC initially focused on ousting Chaffetz. A group of neighbors in Capitol Hill paid for an ad against Chaffetz in a Utah newspaper that ran last weekend.
Others formed a super PAC initially focused on ousting Chaffetz. A group of neighbors in Capitol Hill paid for an ad against Chaffetz in a Utah newspaper that ran last weekend.
Both a border adjustment tax and the elimination of the business deduction for carried interest would divide the GOP majority by pitting one super PAC billionaire against another.
The Congressional Leadership Fund, the super PAC backed by House GOP leadership, spent five figures on phone calls.
Its affiliated super PAC doesn't play in primaries but it has already pulled its staff out of Iowa's 3rd District where Republican Rep. David Young, not a caucus member, opposed the legislation.
And the super PAC allied with House leadership, the Congressional Leadership Fund, had no tolerance for typically leadership-friendly members who didn't get on board with the bill.
Democrats for Life's political action committee spent $14,000 in the 2010 cycle; EMILY's List's PAC spent $27 million, according to Open Secrets.
One wrinkle of the super PAC era is that a president and his party can no longer bludgeon rebellious legislators into submission by cutting off their campaign money.
But the conservative lawmaker, who stumbled and never received financial support from the Club for Growth's PAC, was defeated badly by fellow GOP Rep. Todd Young.
The super PAC tied to House GOP leadership is already spending on television ads in both Georgia and Montana to attack Democratic candidates.
Craig, who is forming the PAC targeting Chaffetz, said it did not bother her that the group might end up supporting candidates who did not share her "classic liberal" beliefs.
"The idea that suddenly there's a big liberal movement there that could take the congressman out is absurd," said Shields, a veteran of the Republican National Committee and, most recently, a super PAC
“There’s not necessarily direct correlation between our PAC support and caucus membership,” he said.
According to the same 2014 survey, 95 percent of GOP donors hadn’t heard of Value in Electing Women PAC (VIEW PAC), one of the main groups on the right that works to elect Republican women to Congress
In one of the most brutal ads of the 2016 elections, House Majority PAC suggested Garrett’s views aligned better with Alabama than with New Jersey, where his district includes both rural areas in the West
“A lot of people don’t see much difference between making a contribution to a super PAC backing one candidate and making a contribution to a candidate directly.”
It was a “hold year,” said Jennifer Higgins, the chairwoman of congressional outreach for RightNow Women PAC, which supports female Republican candidates.
Democrats made Garrett a top target this year, with the Democratic super PAC House Majority PAC debuting its first general election ad of the year here.