As Trump Slumps, Republican Donors Look to Save the Senate

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Times

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.

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In interviews, more than two dozen top Republican donors and strategists said that Mr. Trump’s political fate would be far more contingent on his own behavior and ability to navigate the Covid-19 crisis and the struggling economy than any additional infusion of campaign cash. Yet any efforts by donors to change their focus to the Senate will be a delicate balance. Mr. Trump not only maintains an iron grip on the Republican base that every Republican senator on the ballot will need to mobilize but also a penchant to lash out at the first signs of disloyalty.

On Monday, new campaign filings showed that the billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and his wife contributed $25 million to a super PAC dedicated to electing Senate Republicans in June, his biggest contribution of the 2020 cycle so far. Mr. Adelson has yet to contribute to Mr. Trump’s main super PAC.



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

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Donors need to take a serious look at what did they so called 'save'? What in the hell did it get..

them other than a trip around on the rump merry-go-round to nowhere? rump is slowly destroying this Country (or trying to render it into rump's pathetic version) with literally nothing in exchange, other than his supposed wit and mutterings delivered one tweet at a time. The pathetic republican senate is just as bad, and full of morons too.

[saidsimplesimon]

2. It's a "rage against the moron" that

fuels like minded people in both parties to join forces.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Make them spend it all in a froth of alt-right fury and lose anyway. . . . nt

[ancianita]

4. Sheldon Adelson doesn't like Putin or Nazis. Sheldon wised up.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Not nearly enough. He wants to re-elect tRump's protectors and enablers. . . . . nt

[ancianita]

6. Who are they? Got links? Not for nothing, he's made no PAC contribution.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. $25,000,000 is not "no PAC contribution". ??

On Monday, new campaign filings showed that the billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and his wife contributed $25 million to a super PAC dedicated to electing Senate Republicans in June, his biggest contribution of the 2020 cycle so far.

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

[ancianita]

7. THEY say he will. I'll wait and see.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Did you read the OP (Original Post)?

He contributed 25 Megabucks ($25,000,000 or $25 million).

He contributed to a Republican Senate re-election fund.

Republican Senators voted to acquit tRump. They enable and protect tRump and have done so for four years.

Is this understandable? Does it connect the dots for you?

[ancianita]

10. Damn. I stopped at the good news. Thanks.

[regnaD kciN]

11. Is this news from July 2020 or October 2016...?

Because there was just such an exodus after the "pussy-grabber" tape leaked, with Republicans deciding to throw Trump under the bus to preserve their chances of holding on to Congress.

Two weeks later, they had all fallen back in line.

Expect the same this time, and make sure to vote and GOTV!