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House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and his team are quietly working to aide some of the incumbent Republican lawmakers targeted by Donald Trump, a move that could put him in the former president's crosshairs at a time he's trying to become speaker.
Half of the 10 Republicans who voted for Trump's second impeachment, for inciting the January 6th insurrection, participate in a joint fundraising committee with McCarthy and his leadership PAC, which has raised roughly $100,000 for each of the five campaigns in the first half of the year, CNN revealed on Friday.
That number does not include Republican Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, who have invoked the fury of Trump and many conservative lawmakers for serving on the special committee investigating the insurrection.
The five are: Reps. David Valadao of California, Jamie Herrera Beutler of Washington state, John Katko of New York, and Fred Upton and Peter Meijer, both of Michigan.
Valadao and Katko are long time allies of McCarthy.
House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and his team are quietly working to aide