GOP Nonprofit Group Demands Select Committee to Take Over Probe Into Russia’s Election Meddling

A group of Republicans opposed to President Trump and concerned over the slow pace of the ongoing probes into Russian meddling has launched a nonprofit to pressure other GOP leaders to create a select committee to take over the investigation.

Evan McMullin and Mindy Finn, who together ran on an independent conservative presidential ticket last year, launched “Stand up Republic” this week to build support within the GOP for merging the ongoing House and Senate Intelligence Committee probes into a single, comprehensive bipartisan select committee, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

The group made a six-figure television ad buy in several states to make the case directly to American voters as well, The Washington Post reported. The ads will begin airing later.

The group and its ads mark the first substantial public effort from either party to call for a select committee—a high-profile, bipartisan, Benghazi-style panel of lawmakers from a variety of committees—which McMullin, a former CIA operations officer, has said would be better suited to remain independent.