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White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway and her husband George Conway arrive for a candlelight dinner at Union Station on the eve of the 58th presidential inauguration in D.C. on January 19, 2017.
- The husband of a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, George Conway, has teamed up with a group of conservatives to launch a Super PAC dedicated to blocking Trump's reelection.
- The new anti-Trump organization, dubbed "The Lincoln Project," has reportedly already raised over $1 million.
- In an op-ed explaining the new project's mission, Conway and several of the organization's advisory council members wrote: "Our efforts will be dedicated to defeating President Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box and to elect those patriots who will hold the line."
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George Conway and a group of fellow anti-Trump conservatives are launching a Super PAC with the explicit purpose of blocking President Donald Trump's reelection in 2020.
The effort has been dubbed "The Lincoln Project," and has already raised over $1 million, CNBC reported.
Conway, who is the husband of top Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, and several of the new project's advisory council members outlined their mission in a New York Times op-ed on Tuesday: "We Are Republicans, and We Want Trump Defeated."
"Patriotism and the survival of our nation in the face of the crimes, corruption and corrosive nature of Donald Trump are a higher calling than mere politics," they wrote. "That's why we are announcing the Lincoln Project, an effort to highlight our country's story and values, and its people's sacrifices and obligations."
They went on to say that over the next 11 months "our efforts will be dedicated to defeating President Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box and to elect those patriots who will hold the line."
"The 2020 general election, by every indication, will be about persuasion, with turnout expected to be at record highs," they added. "Our efforts are aimed at persuading enough disaffected conservatives, Republicans and Republican-leaning independents in swing states and districts to help ensure a victory in the Electoral College, and congressional majorities that don't enable or abet Mr. Trump's violations of the Constitution, even if that means Democratic control of the Senate and an expanded Democratic majority in the House."
Conway, a conservative lawyer, has been an unabashed critic of Trump despite his wife's senior position in the White House. This has at times placed a clear strain on their marriage, with the White House counselor at one point stating that her husband's tweets against the president were "disrespectful" to her.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider on The Lincoln Project.
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