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Donald Trump speaks at the Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville, Kentucky, on March 1. | Getty Anti-Trump super PAC adds top Bush adviser

An anti-Donald Trump super PAC has hired former Jeb Bush spokesman Tim Miller to be its communications adviser, adding establishment muscle to a group that hopes to unite big GOP donors against the current GOP frontrunner.

Miller, an aggressive political communicator who before working for Bush headed up the Republican opposition research shop America Rising, will join Our Principles PAC, a group that has been hammering Trump in early primary states. Miller has been a vocal critic of Trump, both during the Bush campaign and after. Last week, he used his Twitter account to attack Chris Christie for his decision to endorse Trump.

In an email to POLITICO, Miller wrote: "Donald's general election campaign will fail worse than Trump Mortgage and Trump Steaks did and Hillary Clinton will destroy him even if she's campaigning from jail. Our Principles PAC will fight until the last delegate is counted to stop that from happening, I'm happy to be a part of it."

Also on Tuesday evening, Our Principles PAC held a conference call with some of the Republican Party’s top donors.

Among those on the line, according to one participant, included Hewlett Packard President and CEO Meg Whitman, Chicago Cubs co-owner Todd Ricketts, and New York hedge fund manager Paul Singer.

The Ricketts family has played a prominent role in funding the group, which is being overseen by Katie Packer, a former top aide to Mitt Romney. But the group has also won the backing of other major contributors alarmed by Trump’s rise, including broadcasting executive Stan Hubbard.

Organizers, hoping to fill the super PAC’s coffers, briefed donors on the group’s progress. They stressed its extensive work against Trump in Iowa, the one state he has failed to win.

Our Principles PAC has yet to detail its next steps, but sources close to the group say it’s considering spending heavily in four delegate-rich states voting in March: Missouri, Illinois, Florida, and Michigan.

News of the call was first reported by The New York Times.

