McCarthy-connected PACs dropped millions on Republicans who booted him from speakership

Political action groups affiliated with former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy shelled out millions — to support the same Republicans who ousted him Tuesday.

Just last year, the California congressman’s affiliated leadership PAC contributed close to $100,000 between eight Congress members that voted to strip him of his Speaker role after just three days shy of his 9-month anniversary at the helm.

“A lot of them I helped get elected, so I probably should have picked someone else,” McCarthy told the National Review after the betrayal.

McCarthy’s Majority Committee gave hefty contributions to the 2022 campaigns of Matt Rosendale of Montana, Nancy Mace of South Carolina, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, campaign finance records show.

The PAC also gave $5,000 each to Eli Crane of Arizona and Bob Good of Virginia.

Reps. Cory Mills of Florida, Victoria Spartz of Indiana and Warren Davidson of Ohio — who originally supported vacating McCarthy but ultimately voted to keep him as speaker — also each received $10,000 from the Majority Committee.

The PAC also contributed $15,000 to the Spartz-affiliated Free Market Fund PAC and $10,000 to the Mace-affiliated Must Act to Create Excellence PAC.

Mace and Crane’s 2022 campaigns also saw respective $5,000 and $10,000 donations from the Congressional Leadership Fund, another McCarthy-affiliated PAC, in 2022.

Crane was given an extra $900,000 in contributions from the group to be spent on advertisements, according to a January Politico report.

McCarthy raised a total of $65.2 million for House Republicans this election cycle, as of July, according to the National Review.

Andy Biggs of Arizona and Ken Buck of Colorado — as well as charge leader Matt Gaetz of Florida — were the only GOP members that booted McCarthy who didn’t receive contributions from the former Speaker’s PACs.