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Deep-pocketed conservative group once at odds with Trump now all-in to ‘help him win’
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EXCLUSIVE: The Club for Growth says it has President Donald Trump’s back as the president pushes Republican-controlled states to redraw congressional maps in order to create more right-leaning districts to help defend the GOP’s fragile House majority in next year’s midterm elections.
«We’re all in on helping Republicans do redistricting,» David McIntosh, longtime president of the deep-pocketed and influential conservative group, said in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital.
McIntosh highlighted that the Club for Growth’s seven-figure efforts «give Republicans a better shot at winning those extra districts.»
The push by the Club is the latest example of its strong support for the president and his policies, just two years after the group worked to prevent Trump from winning the 2024 Republican presidential nomination amid a bitter feud.
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President Donald Trump, is seen pointing as he boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Sept. 11, 2025. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump and his political team are aiming to pad the GOP’s razor-thin House majority to keep control of the chamber in next year’s midterms, when the party in power traditionally faces political headwinds and loses seats.
Trump is trying to prevent what happened during his first term in the White House when Democrats reclaimed the House majority in the 2018 midterm elections.
Texas was the first Republican-controlled state to pass rare but not-unheard-of mid-decade congressional redistricting, although a ruling by two federal judges threatens to overturn the redrawn map. Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio have also drawn new maps as part of the president’s push.
Indiana, where McIntosh served three terms as a congressman 25 years ago, is the latest battlefield in the high-stakes redistricting showdown pitting Trump and Republicans versus Democrats to shape the 2026 midterm landscape in the fight for the House majority.
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«Democrats for years have gerrymandered and Republicans have not, and now it’s time so we can have Republicans in Congress for states like my home state of Indiana, step up to the plate, draw the district, so Republicans can be represented,» McIntosh argued.
Trump has threatened to back primary challenges against Republican state lawmakers in Indiana who are reluctant to pass redistricting.
«I was delighted to see President Trump calling them to do it. And you know, he said, we’re going to start endorsing against you if you don’t do what’s right for the Republican Party and for the nation. Club for Growth will be there to back up his endorsements,» McIntosh said.
And the Club’s political arm, the Club for Growth Action super PAC, which is one of the biggest spenders in Republican primary showdowns thanks to the support of top-dollar conservative donors, is running ads to support the president’s push in right-leaning states across the country.
«We’re way over seven figures when you put together all the different states. And what we’re doing is running ads. We have a new ad today that talks about the need for redistricting,» McIntosh revealed. «We have a program that brings constituent calls into the Senate members, and so they get to hear directly from their voters that they want them to do this.»
It’s not just redistricting.
The Club is spending seven figures in next week’s hotly contested special election for a Republican-controlled vacant House seat in a solidly red congressional district in Tennessee.
Republican candidate for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District Matt Van Epps talks with attendees before a debate with other candidates at CabaRay Showroom in Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 5, 2025. (Nicole Hester / The Tennessean / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
«Matt Epps is going to win,» McIntosh said as he pointed to the Trump-endorsed GOP nominee in the race to succeed former Republican Rep. Mark Green, who resigned from office in June to take a private sector job.
«It’s going to be a hard race. They all are, but he’s going to win that race because he’s more in line with Tennessee,» McIntosh said of Van Epps. «I’m confident of him, and we’re going to help him do it.»
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And looking ahead to next year’s midterms, McIntosh shared that the Club has «already started raising a $40 million fund to keep the House majority, and we’re about 25 million into it.»
«I’m going to keep going, and then we’ll deploy that to make sure Republicans can keep the majority,» he emphasized.
And as they’ve done in the past, the Club, which pushes a fiscally conservative agenda, including a focus on tax cuts and other economic issues, will once again play an influential role in GOP primaries.
«We’re interviewing a lot of candidates now. We’re going to look for the strongest conservative candidate, somebody who wants to continue the economic progress, less regulation, lower taxes, balance the budget, the things that will make America great,» McIntosh said. «And then when we endorse them, we’ll come in with our funding to pay for ads. We’ll recruit and help them raise money. It’s important we get the right Republicans in these primaries, and there are a lot of open seats.»
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Democrats are energized coming out of their party’s sweeping victories earlier this month in the 2026 elections.
«Democrats have racked up wins this year by running on affordability and lowering costs, and headed into 2026 our momentum continues to build,» CJ Warnke, communications director for the Democrat-aligned House Majority PAC told Fox News Digital.
Warnke predicted, «As Trump’s poll numbers on the economy continue to plummet and voters see him prioritizing the elite over lowering prices, his broken promises will sink House Republicans. No Republican-held seat is safe, and HMP will do whatever it takes to win the House in 2026.»
McIntosh sees the 2025 elections as «a warning sign, a wake-up call for two things.»
«One, we got to get our voters out, and that’s the job of the party and Club for Growth and groups like us,» McIntosh noted.
But he added that «the party has to explain how our agenda makes life more affordable, how we can lower your insurance costs by forcing the insurance industry to tell you how much they’re charging. We can lower housing by getting rid of all sorts of regulation.»
Then-former President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Club for Growth president David McIntosh, as Trump speaks at the group’s annual donor retreat, at The Breakers in Palm Beach, on March 1, 2024. (Club For Growth)
McIntosh and the Club have had an up-and-down relationship with the president. They opposed Trump as he ran for the White House in 2016 before embracing him as an ally. In the 2022 cycle, Trump and the Club teamed up in some high-profile GOP primaries but clashed over combustible Senate nomination battles in Alabama, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
The Club was on the outs with Trump as the 2024 Republican presidential nomination race got underway. Trump repeatedly criticized McIntosh and the Club, referring to them as «The Club for NO Growth,» and claimed they were «an assemblage of political misfits, globalists, and losers.»
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However, Trump and McIntosh made peace in early 2024, with Trump saying as he was wrapping up the GOP presidential nomination, that they were «back in love» after the protracted falling out.
Asked about the Club’s relationship with Trump, McIntosh said, «We’re right there with the President, especially in these races … Club for Growth is very aligned with President Trump, and we’re especially in these contested races, we’re going to help him win.»
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While California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom blames President Donald Trump’s actions in Iran for the price of gas, critics are calling him out for «insane» climate policies as the state’s prices at the pump soar significantly above the national average.
On Tuesday, Newsom, who is widely considered a top contender for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, took to X to slam «Trump’s war with Iran» over gas prices.
Newsom wrote that «Americans will pay $1.5 BILLION MORE at the gas pump just this week because of Donald Trump’s war with Iran.» He added that California «will continue using the tools we’ve spent years developing to help fight price spikes and lessen the blow from Trump’s recklessness.»
In response, Steve Hilton, a Republican candidate for California governor, slammed Newsom, saying, «California has the highest gas taxes and fees in America.»
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California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking criticism for the state’s soaring gas prices after blaming «Trump’s war with Iran» for the spike. (Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images; iStock)
«Gavin Newsom is trying to shift blame,» said Hilton, «and he’s blaming these insane gas prices in California, $5.49, $5.69, heading to $6, on the war in Iran. It’s not the war in Iran, because in the rest of the country, they don’t have $5.49, they have $3 gas.»
«It’s entirely because of Gavin Newsom’s insane climate dogma that we have the highest gas taxes in the country,» he continued.
Hilton called on Newsom to end his national book tour and to immediately «suspend the gas tax.»
At approximately $5.33 per gallon, California has by far the highest average gas prices in the U.S., according to AAA. California gas prices significantly exceed those in the next two highest-priced states, Washington and Hawaii, which have average prices of $4.72 and $4.69 per gallon, respectively. Meanwhile, the national average in the U.S. is $3.57 per gallon.
California has the highest gas tax, at roughly 70 cents per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
In a 2025 opinion piece on Fox News Digital, Hilton wrote that «California’s sky-high gas prices» are the «direct result of 15 years of one-party Democratic rule.»
He added that «Gavin Newsom, former Vice President Kamala Harris and every other leading Democrat in the state have been cheerleaders for this ‘war on fossil fuels,’ endlessly bragging about ‘leading the world’ on climate change.»
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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum speaks alongside Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodriguez (out of frame), after their meeting at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas on March 4, 2026. (Federico PARRA / AFP via Getty Images)
Hilton is not the only one criticizing Newsom’s oil and gas policies.
Roxanne Hoge, chair of the Los Angeles County GOP, called Newsom’s take «a textbook case of projection, pointing fingers at others while his own record is riddled with mismanagement and failure.»
«Californians have seen the cost of gas be higher than the rest of the USA for reasons having nothing to do with President Trump. He has driven supply down by banishing producers while not fixing infrastructure with gas tax money as promised,» Hoge told Fox News Digital, adding, «We all know that Gavin Newsom has moved on to campaigning for president in spite of his atrocious record at home.»
On Wednesday, Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum posted on X that «California is KILLING their economy!»
The secretary wrote that while Newsom «continues to close refineries & drive up gas prices for California,» the department approved over 6,000 drilling permits «to advance [Trump’s] American Energy Dominance Agenda & lower gas prices nationwide.»
Chevron President Andy Walz also recently sounded the alarm, warning California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state regulators that newly proposed «cap-and-invest» amendments are a death knell for California’s remaining refineries.
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The California Air Resources Board is aiming to make companies cleaner by aggressively lowering the cap on how much total pollution is allowed in the state. Specifically, the board is proposing to pull 118.3 million allowances out of the state’s market between 2027 and 2030 and has more recently increased its carbon reduction target to 90% by 2045.
The energy giant warns the move will kill more than half a million jobs, threaten national security and spike gas prices by more than a dollar per gallon — all to fuel a state-run «shakedown» of the energy sector — in a letter addressed to Newsom and obtained by The California Globe.
«The proposed regulation will cripple the survivability of the state’s remaining refineries, which will result in California losing the entire industry to this misguided program,» Chevron President Andy Walz wrote.
«This regulation will increase transportation and aviation fuel prices for consumers. It will risk significant job losses, including many high-paying union jobs, while reducing funding for essential public services,» he continued, adding that «it will upend California’s fuels market and threaten critical energy and national security assets.»
In the same vein, Tim Stewart, a spokesperson for the U.S. Oil & Gas Association, told Fox News Digital that «California’s energy malaise is beginning to infect the other western states’ economies and unless there is a course change immediately, we will all feel the pain of decades of horribly bad California energy policy led by Governor Newsom.»
One expert predicted «we will all feel the pain of decades of horribly bad California energy policy led by Governor Newsom.» (Getty Images)
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«California’s gross mismanagement of its energy production and distribution economy is becoming a national security issue, and it now impacts all of us,» Stewart continued, adding that in addition to this, «agriculture, manufacturing, housing, the financial system is all impacted.»
«It doesn’t have to be this way, and Governor Newsom knows it,» said Stewart. «He also knows that no matter how hard he tries – he can’t pin this on Trump or our industry. The public isn’t buying it anymore.»
Fox Business’ Kristen Altus contributed to this report.
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La Unión Europea advirtió que la guerra en Medio Oriente podría impulsar su tasa de inflación por encima del 3%
La Unión Europea advirtió que su tasa de inflación podría superar el 3% este año si la guerra en Medio Oriente mantiene el precio del petróleo Brent cerca de 100 dólares por barril y los precios del gas permanecen elevados durante un período prolongado. El escenario también implicaría un menor crecimiento económico en 2026, según explicó el comisario europeo de Economía, Valdis Dombrovskis, durante una reunión con los ministros de Finanzas del bloque.
De acuerdo con personas familiarizadas con las conversaciones consultadas por Bloomberg, bajo ese escenario el crecimiento económico de la Unión Europea en 2026 sería hasta 0,4 puntos porcentuales inferior al ritmo de 1,4% que el bloque había previsto a finales del año pasado.
El escenario que analizó la Comisión Europea también contempla que los precios del gas en Europa se sitúen en torno a 75 euros por megavatio hora durante el resto del año. Con esas condiciones, la inflación sería entre 0,7 y 1 punto porcentual superior al 2,1% que se había proyectado previamente para 2026.
Un aumento significativo de la inflación podría llevar al Banco Central Europeo (BCE) a elevar las tasas de interés. Los operadores del mercado incrementaron sus apuestas sobre una posible subida de tasas durante este año. La próxima decisión de política monetaria del BCE está prevista para el 19 de marzo, aunque no se espera un aumento de tasas en esa reunión.
Según las personas informadas sobre las conversaciones, Dombrovskis también advirtió que el conflicto podría provocar efectos negativos adicionales en la economía europea debido a su impacto sobre los mercados financieros, el comercio y las cadenas de suministro.
Durante la reunión con los ministros de Finanzas, el comisario europeo explicó que los indicadores económicos recientes mostraban señales de mejora antes de la escalada del conflicto.
De acuerdo con las personas familiarizadas con el encuentro consultadas por Bloomberg, Dombrovskis indicó que las perspectivas económicas del bloque resultaban ligeramente mejores en comparación con el otoño, con un crecimiento esperado de alrededor de 1,5% este año y 1,6% el próximo. Sin embargo, ese panorama se vio afectado por la expansión del conflicto regional vinculado a la guerra en Irán.
Misiles y drones impactaron instalaciones energéticas en países como Arabia Saudita y Qatar, lo que afectó la producción de petróleo y gas natural licuado (GNL). Además, el tránsito de petroleros y otras mercancías a través del estrecho de Ormuz, una de las rutas energéticas más importantes del mundo, se redujo casi por completo.
En declaraciones a periodistas el lunes, Dombrovskis afirmó que “el impacto en la economía europea dependerá de la duración, alcance e intensidad del conflicto”. El comisario europeo también advirtió sobre los riesgos que implican los ataques contra infraestructuras energéticas y rutas comerciales.
“Una persistente ofensiva contra el transporte marítimo y la infraestructura energética expone a la economía mundial a un shock estanflacionario a más largo plazo”, dijo.
Los precios de la energía registraron fuertes movimientos desde el inicio de la guerra. El gas europeo subió con fuerza y el miércoles cotizó cerca de 50 euros por megavatio hora, después de haber alcanzado 70 euros a comienzos de la semana. El petróleo Brent se situó por encima de 90 dólares por barril.
En respuesta a las tensiones en el mercado energético, la Agencia Internacional de Energía acordó el miércoles liberar 400 millones de barriles de reservas estratégicas de petróleo, en lo que constituye la mayor liberación de este tipo realizada por el organismo.
Las autoridades del Banco Central Europeo siguen de cerca el impacto del conflicto sobre la inflación. La responsable de política monetaria del BCE Isabel Schnabel afirmó el miércoles que, aunque se espera que la inflación de la zona euro se sitúe en el objetivo del 2% en el mediano plazo, la nueva proyección que el banco central publicará en marzo reflejará parte del impacto de la guerra.
Schnabel señaló que la proyección “al menos reflejará parcialmente” el efecto del conflicto.
(Con información de Bloomberg)
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