The Lincoln Project is an American political action committee formed in late 2019 by a number of Republicans and former Republicans. The project is named for Abraham Lincoln, a Republican who fought to keep the country unified. In April 2020, the committee announced its endorsement of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, who went on to win the election.
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The Lincoln Project is an American political action committee formed in late 2019 by a number of Republicans and former Republicans. The committee was announced on December 17, 2019, in a New York Times op-ed by George Conway, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver, and Rick Wilson. Other co-founders include Jennifer Horn, Ron Steslow, Reed Galen, and Mike Madrid. In April 2020, the committee announced its endorsement of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, who went on to win the election. In October 2020, Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner threatened to sue the group for its Times Square billboard display mocking the couple for the Trump administration response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lincoln Project said the billboard would remain, releasing a statement saying: \”While we truly enjoy living rent-free in their heads, their empty threats will be taken any more seriously than we take any other threat. It is unsurprising that an administration that never had any regard for our constitution would try to trample on our first amendment rights” The group also campaigned against U.S. Senators up for reelection who had supported Trump. The group was outspoken in their criticism of Trump and the current divide in the Republican Party. As of June 2020, about two-thirds of the group’s television advertisements were focusing on the 2020 presidential election, but the Lincoln Project also created ads promoting Democrats in other races, such as Montana, as well as an ad promoting an anti-Trump campaign in an ad featuring Donald Trump in an interview with Fox News’ Maria Cardona.
On August 23, 2020, Kellyanne Conway announced she was leaving her White House position to spend more time with her family. At the same time, George Conway announced that he was withdrawing from Theincoln Project for similar reasons. The project is named for Abraham Lincoln, a Republican who fought to keep the country unified. On February 27, 1860, Lincoln delivered his Cooper Union speech in Manhattan during his campaign to be the first Republican president. Several members of the committee spoke in the same venue on the 160th anniversary of that talk, from the lectern that Lincoln had used. On May 28, 2020,. Stuart Stevens had previously been the chief strategist for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign in 2012. Prior to that, he had worked for George W. Bush and Bob Dole. Jeff Timmer, a former executive director of the Michigan Republican Party, is an adviser to the project. On August 24, 2020. Former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele announced he had joined the Lincoln project. On June 2,2020, the project announced the release of their podcast, Republicans Defeating Trump, hosted by Ron Stedlow. The group’s podcast is called GOP Defeating Donald Trump and features a weekly discussion on the state of the GOP and the future of the party in the United States. It also features a Q&A session with members of Congress, including members of both houses of Congress.
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