Club for Growth Action

Political leanings: Conservative 2022 total spending: $89.3 million Club for Growth Action, the super PAC of the conservative& Club for Growth,& was launched& in August 2010. On its website, the organization& declares& its mission is to “take on any Member of Congress on policy who fails to uphold basic economic conservative principles … regardless of party.” The super PAC targets some Republican incumbents in primary elections in order to replace them with “free-market, limited government conservatives.” Club for Growth Action states on its website that it has helped to elect conservatives such as Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Tim Scott of South Carolina. As of Feb. 29, the group had raised over $37 million that it can spend during the 2024 election cycle. Its independent expenditures — spending for or against named candidates, without coordination with candidates or parties — totaled almost $6 million, according to Federal Election Commission records. So far, most of the group’s spending in GOP primaries has been on ads opposing candidates in U.S. Senate races, including Gov. Jim Justice in West Virginia and state Sen. Matt Dolan in Ohio. Dolan lost his primary race to businessman Bernie Moreno on March...