The Conservative Victory Project is a political initiative launched in 2013 by

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, the prominent Republican political activist, and the super-PAC

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. Its purpose is to support "electable" conservative political candidates for political office in the United States. The effort was prompted by embarrassing failures of several

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and independent conservative candidates in the elections of 2012. The project has been strongly criticized by some other conservative activists, including

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who described it as a "terrible idea."

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