The orange Hoover
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One reason that Republicans are at a fundraising disadvantage is that Trump is raising huge amounts of money and doing pretty much nothing with it with the possible exception of paying his lawyers:
Trump’s SAVE America PAC raised over $103 million between the insurrection to July of this year. Nine figures! His MAGA PAC has piled on an additional $16 milly. And those numbers were reported before the August raid of Mar-a-Lago that Trump’s team claims resulted in an additional $1 million per day in donations.
Put together, the former president’s political action committees have sucked up somewhere in the neighborhood of $125 million of Republican donor money by now.
So it sure doesn’t seem like Trump is having problems with email spam filters, or Facebook advertising policies, or his hobbit army pinching pennies because of “The Biden Economy.”
What has Trump done with all that scratch? Not much to help anyone besides himself, of course. He hasn’t even spent 10 percent of the receipts supporting GOP candidates on the ballot this year. In fact he’s spent more than twice as much on legal expenses than he’s put down on candidate contributions.
And despite his substantial legal bills (which seem to be compounding) the Trump PACs’ cash-on-hand more than makes up the gap in resources between the two parties. He could get Republican candidates to par with a few simple cash transfers.
But are the heads of the GOP campaign committees calling on him to do this? Nope. They continue to prostrate themselves before their master. Rick Scott gave him a trophy, you might recall. And NRCC Chairman Tom Emmer said “I’m really grateful for his help” when pressed on this question during a Spring conference call with reporters.
In other words: Thank you sir, may we have another!
The midterms are basically going to be a test of whether the various countermajoritarian structural aspects of American constitutionalism will be enough to bail Republicans out from the consequences of Republican elites being ideological extremists who also need to constantly kiss Donald Trump’s ass.