Donald Trump is discovering that his already-long list of enemies has grown since announcing his third presidential bid.
In the fall of 2022, the real estate mogul revealed to the world that he was tossing his hat in the ring for the 2024 election.
There was no fanfare at the Mar-a-Lago event; months later, the former president seems to be running the most low-key political campaign in America’s history.
The campaign has yet to get any traction because Trump is viewed as a weakened politician. Trump is presented as the past of the party and is deemed to be too controversial and too divisive by many Republicans.
Initially, top GOP donors tucked away their checkbooks, and high-profile conservatives stayed on the sideline and watched Trump struggle with his campaign.
However, as of this week, things have shifted. Some Republicans are going to war against Trump.
Trump has a monster enemy who has made it official that he has the organization and resources to take him down and inadvertently help Joe Biden in his reelection bid.
Billionaire Charles Koch‘s Americans for Prosperity Action will be backing only one candidate during the 2024 presidential primary, and it will not be Trump.
In a memo released to employees and activists by Emily Seidel, the CEO of Americans for Prosperity, it was revealed that the network is prepared to give its all to a single Republican candidate.
The document said in part: “It looks like the Democrats have already chosen their path for the presidential — so there’s no opportunity to have a positive impact there. Americans for Prosperity’s super PAC is prepared to support a candidate in the Republican presidential primary who can lead our country forward and who can win.”
The top adviser at AFP Action added: “To write a new chapter for our county, 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.”
While Trump is not directly targeted in the announcement, AFP Action has confirmed to CNN that the powerful network will not support the billionaire T.V. star turned politician.
The mega super PAC, which was launched by multi-billionaires Charles Koch and his late brother, David Koch, gave almost $500 million to Republican candidates in 2020.
The donor network spent nearly $80 million during the 2022 midterm elections, where Republicans received a shellacking.
AFP Action boasts millions of grassroots activists across permanent offices in 36 states. Thus far, Trump is the only person who has entered the race.
However, a slew of people, including Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, former Vice President Mike Pence, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who all have ties to the Koch political operations, have plans to announce their bids for the Republican nomination.
