Republicans to Trump: Pony up more cash in battle for Senate

[Eugene]

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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[CatWoman]

1. LOL!!!!

[Mr.Bill]

2. Trump? Give money away?

[lindysalsagal]

3. Run roh! What if the magats also figure out the grift?

gift?, McTurtle? How about you work with doj on this criminality? Oh, right. Russian gangster money.

[Norbert]

4. HA! The orange malignancy, separating himself from money? Good luck with that.

You guys are screwed.

[madashelltoo]

5. Oh, I know his response to that.

NOPE!

[SheilaAnn]

6. Don't hold your breath, that's his "retirement package"..LOL. n/t

[CentralMass]

7. Let's see how well that works out for them.

[Ocelot II]

8. Good luck with that, Mitch. TFG doesn't give money to anybody.

He doesn't even pay his lawyers.

[PortTack]

9. When pigs fly!!

[MOMFUDSKI]

10. The remaining normal repubs are realizing

they had 2 chances to impeach and left it go and now they are up to their collective asses in DOO DOO.

[Blue Owl]

11. C'mon Fatty......

[2naSalit]

12. Wasting their time on that.

Should have dumped him a long time ago.

[Jade Fox]

13. They have to go begging for money to the monster they created.....

Smooth move, Republicans.

Not to mention its doubtful he will give them a dime.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. First, Good Luck With That

Second, what money? I think it foolish to believe TFG isn't covering debt service with that money.
With revenues continuing their fall, there isn't enough money to cover the enormous debt.
This grift is a corporate revenue enhancement program.

[Zambero]

15. Hey GOP, you may not know this.

HE is not one of YOU.
YOU are now one of HIM.

[yonder]

17. +1. Excellent, succinct take on that shift.

The Great Inversion, the food ate the belly, etc.

[no_hypocrisy]

16. "You want it? Come and get it!"

Yeah, right . . . . . .

[WarGamer]

18. to be honest... $99M isn't much in politics.

That's a full push for 2 maybe 3 candidates max.

[keithbvadu2]

19. Rick Scott managed to spend their money quite easily.

Rick Scott managed to spend their money quite easily.

Any bets about it going to his own pockets and cronies?

[Zambero]

20. Scott got off easy years ago with a Medicare fraud verdict

A fine and he walked. A person of lesser means would likely still be behind bars. The long-gone campaign cash ("Poof!&quot on his watch is small potatoes in comparison. Sorry about the shortfall, Mitch. You should have seen this coming!