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SouthernCal_Dem

(851 posts)
Mon Jul 20, 2020, 07:16 PM Jul 2020

NYT: GOP discussing redirecting money away from Trump to vulnerable Senate Republicans

President Trump’s weak poll numbers and a surge of Democratic cash flooding key Senate races have jolted top Republicans and intensified talk among party donors and strategists about redirecting money to protect their narrow Senate Republican majority amid growing fear of complete Democratic control of Washington in 2021.

Almost no one is talking openly about abandoning Mr. Trump at this point. A total collapse at the top of the ticket, Republican strategists and donors agree, would only make holding the Senate harder.

But maintaining the Senate is an imperative for the G.O.P.: A Democratic Senate could offer a glide path for liberal Supreme Court nominees from a President Biden, or block Mr. Trump’s judges if he won a second term. And right now, Senate Republican incumbents and candidates are losing badly in the money chase not just in the top Senate battlegrounds — states like Maine, Arizona, Colorado and North Carolina — but also in conservative states, such as Montana, where seats are now increasingly up for grabs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/us/politics/trump-polls-senate.html

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NYT: GOP discussing redirecting money away from Trump to vulnerable Senate Republicans (Original Post) SouthernCal_Dem Jul 2020 OP
A wise move. Too little, too late, but wise. nt Xipe Totec Jul 2020 #1
Polls still look like this after the convention Trenzalore Jul 2020 #2
Well, Trump can't steal the money if the GOP doesn't give it to him. no_hypocrisy Jul 2020 #3
Why not? Trump has been redirecting funds away from his own campaign to his personal interests too. yonder Jul 2020 #4
I'm sure he'll take the news gracefully renate Jul 2020 #5
In-fighting within the RepubliCon party MyOwnPeace Jul 2020 #6

yonder

(9,631 posts)
4. Why not? Trump has been redirecting funds away from his own campaign to his personal interests too.
Mon Jul 20, 2020, 07:26 PM
Jul 2020

What's good for the goose.....

renate

(13,776 posts)
5. I'm sure he'll take the news gracefully
Mon Jul 20, 2020, 07:42 PM
Jul 2020

Love it! Now he'll be trash talking every GOP senator who gets money that he thinks of as his.

MyOwnPeace

(16,888 posts)
6. In-fighting within the RepubliCon party
Mon Jul 20, 2020, 07:57 PM
Jul 2020

would only add to the daily comedy coming from BunkerBoy and his faithful followers!

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