Kochs reject push to meet with Trump
Top Donald Trump donors tried to set up a meeting between the GOP presidential nominee and Charles Koch in Colorado Springs on Friday, but Koch aides rejected the entreaties, according to two Republicans with knowledge of the outreach.
Koch and his brother David Koch, who helm an influential network of advocacy groups and major conservative donors, have been sharply critical of Trump’s rhetoric and policy stances and have indicated they do not intend to support his campaign.
Trump in turn has blasted the Kochs and other major conservative donors as puppeteers to whom his GOP primary rivals were beholden, while he touted the independence from Big Money he said he achieved by largely self-financing his campaign.
But the billionaire first-time candidate has dialed back his anti-donor rhetoric since he clinched the GOP nomination and began active fundraising for a general election campaign in which his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, and her allies are expected to spend upward of $1.5 billion.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/kochs-donald-trump-226451#ixzz4FrS2UtxQ
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Pence is their kind of guy. He's deferring attendance at their summer conference this year as usual to his run for VP. Might not look good, not that these things are ever photographed, of course.
Charles Koch and his alliance of over 700 megawealthy may not expect this long-shot ticket to succeed, but if Trump became president I suspect he would only last as long as it took his many hard-right enemies to find cause to put him on trial and toss him out. In favor of Pence.
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