GOP donors may pull funds from Trump's sinking campaign to try to save the Senate: report

[soothsayer]

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/gop-donors-may-pull-funds-from-trumps-sinking-campaign-to-try-to-save-the-senate-report/

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On Monday, The New York Times reported that Republican megadonors are quietly considering abandoning President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign as a lost cause, and instead redirecting their resources into preventing a Democratic takeover of the Senate.

“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,” reported Shane Goldmacher. “But maintaining the Senate is an urgent 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 deep red states, such as Montana, where seats are now increasingly up for grabs.”

“Five of the most endangered Republican senators up for re-election were out-raised by a combined $18.5 million in the second quarter by their Democratic challengers, recent campaign filings show,” said the report. “The private discussions about whether to shift resources toward imperiled Republican Senate candidates reflect a mix of factors: a lack of confidence that Mr. Trump will beat Joseph R. Biden Jr.; fear that the president is already a drag on down-ballot candidates; desire to maintain a G.O.P. ‘firewall’ on Capitol Hill if Mr. Biden prevails; and the belief that money is not among Mr. Trump’s myriad problems.”....

“We could be in big trouble in the Senate,” said Texas GOP fundraiser Fred Zeidman. “If we lose the White House, then we’ve lost everything. The Senate has to be the firewall.”

[Dennis Donovan]

1. As Trump Slumps, Republican Donors Look to Save the Senate (NYT link)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/us/politics/republican-senators-2020-trump.html

Senators and donors worry that with President Trump in trouble and the House probably out of reach, the Senate could be their last chance to hold power in Washington.

By Shane Goldmacher
July 20, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET

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 urgent 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 deep red states, such as Montana, where seats are now increasingly up for grabs.

Five of the most endangered Republican senators up for re-election were out-raised by a combined $18.5 million in the second quarter by their Democratic challengers, recent campaign filings show.

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[exboyfil]

2. Considering how much of the funds are being funneled to Trump personally

That would be a wise decision. You would think some of them would be raising a bigger stink over it.

[SoonerPride]

3. Too late.

They are tied to trump and when he sinks he will drown all of them in his wake.

[safeinOhio]

4. Would be easy to tie their

Congress people to tRump on tv ads.

[NNadir]

5. Unfortunately...

...Senate Republicans made their bed by running a kangaroo court declining even to hear witnesses against an obviously guilty and obviously corrupt excuse for a President.

It is too late to detach the Republican party from its cult of personality.

Everything he touches dies, and that would include the Republican party.

[gratuitous]

6. "The Senate has to be the firewall"

To do what, Fred Zeidman? What is the conservative agenda that you haven't been carrying out the last three years? Millions out of work, Treasury emptied into your overstuffed pockets, judiciary tainted with fascists for the next generation, a pandemic ravaging the nation, and secret police cadres brutalizing the citizenry. What's left for you to accomplish?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. More obstructionism

To ensure that Biden doesn't go crazy with a "far left agenda" (which to them will be anything. Barack Obama's embrace of some moderate Republican policies proved that Republicans won't even accept those anymore).

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. His Senate Republican enablers deserve to go out with Trump's sinking ship

Almost all of them have consistently have subverted and shatter Senate and other democratic norms to appease and enable Trump, they've refused to do anything other than mildly rebuke him verbally and have otherwise refused to hold him accountable for virtually anything despite instances of egregious twisting of laws and norms. They've allowed him to thwart the normal checks and balances that Congress is supposed to provide and made him a quasi-Dictator. Their Democratic challengers need to make sure that they are tied as closely to Trump as possible and shouldn't be allowed to slither back into the Senate after everything.

[struggle4progress]

9. "If you like Trump, you'll just adore us!"

[chowder66]

10. More reason to go after all of the republican senators harder in ads, social media and media.