GOP Rep. Kinzinger to start new PAC to challenge party's embrace of Trump
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), one of 10 Republicans to vote to impeach Donald Trump earlier this month, has launched a new leadership political action committee that is designed to become a financial engine to challenge the former presidents wing of the GOP caucus and stand up against a leadership team still aligned with him.
Kinzinger, a onetime star of the 2010 Tea Party class, said the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol served as a final breaking point for the direction of the Republican Party, providing a stark divide between those who want to continue a path toward autocracy and those who want to return to traditional conservative values.
In an interview Sunday on NBCs Meet the Press, Kinzinger formally unveiled his Country 1st PAC and a 6-minute campaign-style video launching what he hopes will become a movement
The reality is this: This is a time to choose
And my goal in launching Country1st.com is just to say, look, lets take a look at the last four years, how far we have come in a bad way, how backward looking we are, how much we peddle darkness and division, Kinzinger said on the program. And thats not the party I ever signed up for. And I think most Republicans didnt sign up for that.
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