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Ryan Lizza

The quarter-billion dollar PAC driving a red wave

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy speaks at a ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda on Sept. 29, 2022 in Washington, D.C. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Dan Conston is the president of the Congressional Leadership Fund, the super PAC aligned with Rep. Kevin McCarthy with the singular mission of making the California Republican Speaker of the House. Most forecasts suggest that Conston and CLF are on the verge of success.

In a candid hour-plus interview, Conston took Playbook behind the scenes of CLF’s operation. We talked about the issues and demographics of this election, emerging GOP opportunities in the final days of the campaign and the inside strategies that one of the best-funded super PACs in American politics uses to take down its Democratic opponents.

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