With Uncertainty at Top of Ticket, Republicans Back Off in Some States

[Somerville]

Is the RNC basically admitting their is little to no chance of a Republican entering the White House next January?

With Uncertainty at Top of Ticket, Republicans Back Off in Some States

The Republican National Committee is scaling back its financial commitments to some of the most hotly contested states because of flagging fund-raising, the most concrete evidence yet of how the party’s divisive and protracted presidential race is threatening the party’s entire ticket in November.
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Just as revealing, the party is also taking steps to create a separate fund-raising entity dedicated to Senate races, an acknowledgment that many of the wealthiest contributors are increasingly focused on protecting Republican control of Congress rather than on a presidential campaign they fear is lost.

Trump's toxicity is causing fear in the GOP establishment that they won't be able to raise the money necessary for House and Senate campaigns

“The unspoken concern,” said Mr. Borges, the Ohio chairman, is that if Mr. Trump secures the nomination, “he, No. 1, won’t participate in fund-raising for the party, and, No. 2, donors won’t want to help the party if he’s the nominee.”

Prominent figures such as John McCain, Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney have said they won't be attending the Republican convention. Do you think they want to stay away from the potential fallout of a contested convention?

 

[clownboy]

So, what you're showing here is that the views on the candidates at the top of the ticket are affecting donations used for down ticket. But only for republicans. The dems keep the money flowing no matter how crooked or wacky the top of their ticket is. Makes sense and reveals what has been said about the democrat party all along.

The losers are butthurt everyone is acknowledging they're losers, they thought folks would forget they were losers by now. They're done, stick a fork in them.

 

[reinoe]

Is the RNC basically admitting their is little to no chance of a Republican entering the White House next January?



Trump's toxicity is causing fear in the GOP establishment that they won't be able to raise the money necessary for House and Senate campaigns


Prominent figures such as John McCain, Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney have said they won't be attending the Republican convention. Do you think they want to stay away from the potential fallout of a contested convention?

Oh boo hoo. If the GOP took all of JEB! SUPER-PAC money their candidates in all 50 states would be swimming in gold like Scrooge McDuck.

Trump won't fundraise for the party? Who gives a flying *$^Y#? If he's president his job is to be leader of the free world. Jeez, the hubris of the establishment has no limit. If the GOP NEEDS money get Reince Preibus to do fundraising! Or get Micheal Steele, the guy who brought the GOP record breaking wins in 2010 only to be fired because he was Black.

 

[OpportunityCost]

Is the RNC basically admitting their is little to no chance of a Republican entering the White House next January?



Trump's toxicity is causing fear in the GOP establishment that they won't be able to raise the money necessary for House and Senate campaigns


Prominent figures such as John McCain, Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney have said they won't be attending the Republican convention. Do you think they want to stay away from the potential fallout of a contested convention?

There are also 2 wings to the party right now, how they spend will be based on who winds up as the nominee, its not capitulation, its strategy.

 

[shagg]

Is the RNC basically admitting their is little to no chance of a Republican entering the White House next January?

The GOP is in the same boat as Bernie supporters as far as this goes, reality can not be denied. Unless Shillary ****s up something big, gets indicted, etc. her presidency is pretty much in the bag.

 

[Casper]

Is the RNC basically admitting their is little to no chance of a Republican entering the White House next January?



Trump's toxicity is causing fear in the GOP establishment that they won't be able to raise the money necessary for House and Senate campaigns


Prominent figures such as John McCain, Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney have said they won't be attending the Republican convention. Do you think they want to stay away from the potential fallout of a contested convention?

They lost the Whitehouse when Donald entered the race and people began drinking his snake oil, what they need to be concerned with losing the Senate.

 

[Zyphlin]

Oh boo hoo. If the GOP took all of JEB! SUPER-PAC money their candidates in all 50 states would be swimming in gold like Scrooge McDuck.

While perhaps put across in a condescending and exaggerated way, this is a reasonable point about the negatives of a large and drawn out primary process.

Money and support ultimately are a finite thing. There's only going to be so much available and only so much people are going to be able to give. A shorter or less wide open primary allows for more of that money to potentially be used in the general, which really matters, than being funneled into an election to simply see who has the chance to go onward. It's one of the reasons why an incumbent is usually at an advantage in a Presidential election.