'Adapt immediately or find a new job': Senate GOP confronts fundraising emergency

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‘Adapt immediately or find a new job’: Senate GOP confronts fundraising emergency
Democrats' online fundraising has again caught fire, giving them a boost in November's fight for the Senate majority.
By ELENA SCHNEIDER, JAMES ARKIN and ALLY MUTNICK
07/13/2020 04:30 AM EDT


Last month, the National Republican Senatorial Committee prepared a slideshow for Senate chiefs of staff full of bleak numbers about the party's failure to compete with Democrats on digital fundraising. For anyone not getting the message, the final slide hammered home the possible end result: a freight train bearing down on a man standing on the tracks.

The slideshow, obtained by POLITICO, painted a grim picture of the GOP’s long-running problem. Republican senators and challengers lagged behind Democrats by a collective $30 million in the first quarter of 2020, a deficit stemming from Democrats’ superior online fundraising machine. Since then, Democrats' fundraising pace accelerated further, with the party’s challengers announcing huge second-quarter hauls last week, largely driven by online donors giving through ActBlue, the party’s preferred fundraising platform.

The money guarantees Democrats nothing heading into November 2020. But with President Donald Trump’s poll numbers sagging and more GOP-held Senate races looking competitive, the intensity of Democrats’ online fundraising is close to erasing the financial advantage incumbent senators usually enjoy. That’s making it harder to bend their campaigns away from the national trend lines — and helping Democrats’ odds of flipping the Senate.

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During the lunch meeting with senators’ top aides, NRSC staffers warned that if Republicans don’t improve — by investing in list-building, advertising regularly on Facebook and increasing email solicitations — the outlook was bleak not just for 2020, but for 2022 and 2024.

“It’s a slow-moving trainwreck,” said Eric Wilson, a Republican consultant who led Marco Rubio’s digital strategy in the 2016 presidential campaign. “The warning signs are flashing right now, and they’re ignoring it.”

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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/13/senate-gop-fundraising-emergency-358864

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Meh. After Nixon's resignation R fundraising dropped even worse-- they didn't...

have the rent for their DC HQ.

Look how they came back.

[Wounded Bear]

2. They did their 'autopsy' in 2012, right?

They tossed that and doubled down on their bullshit. More racism, more tax cuts for billionaires, more "Christian" bullshit.

[mercuryblues]

3. The beatings will continue

until moral improves.