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Alex Castellanos Revs Up Super-PAC for Trump

The Republican political consultant was not a Donald Trump supporter in the primary. But he's come around.

Alex Castellanos, co-founder of Purple Strategies, speaks during the Bloomberg Washington Summit on Nov. 12, 2009.

Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
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Republican Alex Castellanos did not support Donald Trump during the primary, but he's come around for the general election, and is now heading up a new super-PAC to support the billionaire's candidacy.

"Was he my first choice? No," Castellanos told Bloomberg Politics' "Masters in Politics" podcast. "He's now our Republican nominee. I didn't take a pledge but I'm still a Republican and a conservative and eight more years of Obama and Clinton and that kind of thing? Guess what? I want to help Donald Trump get elected president of the United States. I'll do anything and everything I can do to make that happen."