Republicans to Trump: Pony up more cash in battle for Senate
Source: Politico
Republicans to Trump: Pony up more cash in battle for Senate
By BURGESS EVERETT and MERIDITH MCGRAW
09/09/2022 12:39 PM EDT
Mitch McConnell is indirectly nudging Donald Trump to help Republicans try to flip the Senate, part of a broader GOP campaign to get the former president to open up his well-stocked coffers for the rest of the party.
The minority leader is advising Trump-backed candidates and senators with good relationships with the 45th president to prod him to transfer millions of dollars from his leadership PAC to super PACs supporting Trump’s favored candidates, according to two people familiar with McConnell’s entreaty. Trump has repeatedly trashed McConnell over the past 18 months, including calling for his ouster as GOP leader. But the two have a shared goal of turning the Senate red.
The private push to get Trump to financially engage in a number of battleground states comes as the former president sits on roughly $99 million, stored in his PAC. That unused cash is drawing increased attention from GOP leaders as the midterms approach, with Trump’s own endorsed candidates lagging in polls and trailing their Democratic opponents in fundraising.
As Republicans openly bemoan Democrats’ money edge across the Senate map, McConnell allies hope Trump will see his candidates’ races as referenda on his own brand — that a win could prove he’s still a kingmaker, and a loss will stain his political record. Many Trump-backed Republican candidates, like J.D. Vance in Ohio and Blake Masters in Arizona, are facing serious money woes compared to their Democratic opponents.
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Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/09/republicans-trump-cash-senate-00055874
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Smooth move, Republicans.
Not to mention its doubtful he will give them a dime.
A fine and he walked. A person of lesser means would likely still be behind bars. The long-gone campaign cash ("Poof!"
on his watch is small potatoes in comparison. Sorry about the shortfall, Mitch. You should have seen this coming!
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