#11. David McIntosh
Who: President of Conservative Group Club for Growth, Former Indiana Representative
What: The Club for Growth, a conservative advocacy organization, was the first GOP-aligned outside group to spend money on ads opposing Trump. When he announced his group’s ad buys, McIntosh said, “Donald Trump is running as an outsider, channeling the real frustration that Americans have that Washington leaders have not gotten the job done. In reality, Donald Trump is the worst kind of politician who’ll say anything to get elected.”
As one of the contributors to the National Review’s piece on Trump, McIntosh said Trump “is no conservative.” McIntosh wrote that Trump’s ideas are “the ramblings of a liberal wannabe strongman who will use and abuse the power of the federal government to impose his ideas on the country.”