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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNYT: GOP discussing redirecting money away from Trump to vulnerable Senate Republicans
President Trumps 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. Trumps 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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(43,872 posts)Trenzalore
(2,331 posts)They will abandon ship
no_hypocrisy
(45,774 posts)yonder
(9,631 posts)What's good for the goose.....
renate
(13,776 posts)Love it! Now he'll be trash talking every GOP senator who gets money that he thinks of as his.
MyOwnPeace
(16,888 posts)would only add to the daily comedy coming from BunkerBoy and his faithful followers!