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Republicans offer support for Steve King challenger BY JULIEGRACE BRUFKE AND CRISTINA MARCOS - 08/16/19 06:00 AM EDT House Republican lawmakers are openly expressing support for Rep. Steve King’s (R-Iowa) main primary challenger after the incumbent’s latest controversial remarks about abortion, rape and incest. Rep. Paul Mitchell (R-Mich.), the sophomore class representative in House GOP leadership, says he plans to contribute the maximum amount to King’s primary opponent. “I will be openly contributing to his primary opponent and encouraging others to do the same. Enough of his destructive commentary,” said Mitchell, who recently announced his plans to retire from Congress next year. “In my opinion Steve King does not reflect the values or principles of our conference,” Mitchell added. Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio), who led the House GOP’s campaign arm in the last cycle, said he’s thinking about supporting King’s primary opponent. “I can only speak for myself, but I’m considering my options on supporting his primary opponent, who by all accounts is a good man,” Stivers told The Hill. Under Stivers, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) did not offer any assistance to King at the end of the 2018 cycle because of social media posts that backed white nationalists. King ended up winning reelection by just 3 points over Democrat J.D. Scholten in what is considered a heavily conservative district. Few Republicans are giving King any money. King raised only $91,000 in the last fundraising quarter that ended in June, compared to Iowa state Sen. Randy Feenstra's $140,000. Feenstra, the most prominent of three primary challengers to King, also raked in more money than the incumbent in the previous quarter. While the NRCC does not involve itself in primaries, it has been noncommittal about backing King if he does win his primary. “It’s too early to tell which races we will be supporting because we won’t know what the general election matchup looks like until after the primary,” NRCC spokesman Chris Pack told The Hill. King shocked his party on Wednesday with comments at the Westside Conservative Club in Iowa that were meant to defend his position that abortion should be illegal including in cases of rape and incest. “What if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled out anyone who was a product of rape or incest? Would there be any population of the world left if we did that?” he said, according to The Des Moines Register. “Considering all the wars and all the rapes and pillages that happened throughout all these different nations, I know that I can't say that I was not a part of a product of that.” thehill