The National Republican Congressional Committee is naming Joe King, an Ohio-based strategist with close ties to NRCC Chairman Steve Stivers, as a senior adviser to the committee — with the expectation that King will later lead the committee's independent expenditure unit in the 2018 election, according to a source close to the committee.King will advise the committee on races by “surveying the battlefield, determining what’s important to us” and developing a “winning strategy,” he said in an interview.