The internecine angle to the intra-party political and financial conflicts come via Politico, so apply that prism accordingly. However, the overarching background of the story (as presented) does align with the internal party power conflict we all know about.
According to the outline, Mitch McConnell has withdrawn spending of the Senate PAC funds from MAGA senate candidates. McConnell is telling his senators who are more favorably aligned with President Trump, to push the Trump PAC to spend more on them if Trump wants to see them win in 2022.
President Trump has, and continues to, support all of the MAGA candidates with direct funding [See FEC Filing], campaign rallies [LINK], and major big donor fundraisers [LINK], including at least one example of excessive funds distributed [LINK]. However, whenever anything involves McConnell, particularly when it involves money, it is critical to apply a Machiavellian prism to McConnell’s DeceptiCon motives.
By now everyone should know Senator McConnell holds no fundamental interest in being in the majority. Nothing in his power structure changes if Democrats are in the majority. From McConnell and the club approach, the “control of the senate” argument is a fundraising gimmick. Give the DeceptiCons control of the senate and nothing structurally changes in the policy or legislative sphere. Reference the 2014 to 2020 GOPe control, anti-Trump resistance, budgets and support for Obamacare, as examples of the last time the GOPe had senate majorities.
Absent of any real motivation to gain a republican majority in the senate, illusions and pretenses dropped, the “battle for control of the senate” simply comes down to a strategy of what is best to support Big Corps, and downstream fundraising. However, the fundraising angle does afford Mitch the opportunity to leverage more power and eliminate influence.
By withdrawing financial support and telling MAGA candidates to go get money from Trump, McConnell positions his power in the senate to bleed his opposition of resources, in this example, Donald Trump.
Mitch creates a club narrative that Donald Trump is not supporting the MAGA candidates who gained victories in the primary. He also seeks to bleed Donald Trump of money so that a more ‘acceptable republican’ can challenge him financially later on.
President Trump has around $100 million in his Super PAC. Meanwhile Ron DeSantis has around $200 million in his PAC, and the Republican party of Florida (a completely separate club entity) is doing all the campaign spending so that DeSantis keeps his coffers full for the looming 2024 presidential race.
Team DeSantis isn’t spending much on his Florida governor’s race, other than small campaign expenses, because he doesn’t need to. All those commercials, advertising, marketing and solicitation you see are from alternative groups (like the republican party of Florida), not the DeSantis campaign itself.
With around $200 million in the bank, minimal spending rate and 60 days before the election, why would a state candidate be traveling around the country to collect donations? The simple answer is the collection is not for the current state race. DeSantis is building a 2024 war chest.
Insert McConnell and now you can easily make the argument the corporate club ownership is attempting to bleed one candidate (Trump) in order to quietly build another acceptable replacement (DeSantis). The internal club games on display.
(Politico) – 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 effort to get Trump to unlock his PAC stash is yet another sign of his seismic effect on the Republican Party. He is sucking up a massive portion of GOP donations (including a sizable chunk of the grassroots dollars) in a midterm election year. That, in turn, has given him significant sway while out of office — even after many Senate Republicans, including McConnell, soured on Trump after the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Now they insert the false premise:
[…] 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 previously noted, President Trump continues to support, finance, campaign and fundraise for all the MAGA candidates. However, the Decepticon strategy involves creating a fallacy to assist the agenda.
[…] One Republican senator, granted anonymity to speak candidly about the situation, doubted that Trump would loosen his purse strings even for his own candidates given the long-running tensions between him and Senate Republicans — a sentiment echoed in part by some operatives close to the former president.
“It’s not Trump’s job to elect a Senate majority,” said one Trump world adviser.
But others were more hopeful.
“In at least a couple of those races, there’s a really compelling argument for him to be involved. He’s got a huge wad of cash that could make a difference,” said Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) (read more)
The only thing more frustrating than watching republican DC politics, is watching republican DC politics unfold while the majority of voting republicans do not accept what is taking place. Republican voters are in an abusive relationship with the Republican Club, yet so many just cannot accept it.
Once you realize the goals of the people who control the Republican Club are the exact opposite goals of the voters who continue voting to keep them in office, only then can the battered conservative dynamic be broken. Unfortunately, that level of realization is painful because we start to realize the scale and scope of what the abuser would do in their effort to keep us under their control.
Federal J6 Investigation to freeze Save America PAC finances in 3… 2… already in the works…
Dayum!!!
Blake Masters Vs. Mark Kelly in AZ
Mark Kelly Democratic Party $54,141,015
Blake Masters Republican Party $4,958,036
There is no support for Masters In Arizona
Well Masters is probably not getting money from the Chinese, or boatloads from out of state. He didn’t have a foundation or nonprofit with his wife. No money leftover from the last election that probably had similar donors.
I don’t think “no support “ should be derived from that.
Mark Kelly is not a Senator elected because he was the best option. He doesn’t have roots in Arizona. He’s a lite version of a Manchurian candidate. He’s a taller image of John McCain, and gets help, money and probably votes from the McCain machine. IMO. I think he’ll keep the Trump hater vote-on both wings of the party, but the old fashioned dems might look at him as all hat, no cattle.
Here’s some good news, from Politico:
A new poll finds Arizona’s Senate race between Sen. Mark Kelly (D) and Republican opponent Blake Masters is getting razor-tight. The Emerson College poll released Friday shows Kelly leading Masters 47 percent to 45 percent, a finding within the survey’s margin of error
Masters should have a good chance of winning, Trump barely “lost” AZ in 2020, less than 1%.
Blake Masters in a LANDSLIDE over Kelly, mark my words.
ONLY….if local groups organize and watch the “ballot boxes”into the night…take pictures, licenese plate numbers, watchdogs or join the “voting polls, and watch if the “counting machines” are off line! Last chance people. We have organized a group in Mesa to do just that.
It’s the MESSAGE, not the MONEY!!!!!!!
I will still be giving Blake another $100 for the cause…. wish I could give more!
No one is holding Mitch the _Itch to account right now. That will all change after the first of the year. He and McCarthy are due for the surpise of their lives. We will be kicking their ass everything they screw us over. It’s gonna get ugly for them if they try their rino tricks,we will not stand for it.
We have to convince Kentucky voters to stop voting for Mitch. Unfortunately they just re-elected him in 2020 (sigh) so now we have to wait til 2026, or pray that he gets a bad case of something that forces him to retire.
Clot shot should start working. Oops, he got saline and takes ivermectin.
Maybe not if the TURTLE is convicted for TREASON or ESPIONAGE.
Dead criminals commit no more crimes. Charles Bronson.
Yes, when the votes happen for majority leader and speaker, both McConnel and McCarthy will be further exposed as not deserving!
Unfortunately, we are not voting for them. Uniparty elected Republicans are.
Our congress critter voted to impeach.
McCarthy supported our congress critter during the primary.
We have gotten rid of Jamie in the primary.
Don’t do it. McConnel is setting you up for fblie raid.
“Our democracy”….. what does that mean? What does it imply? Why do the lefties say that over and over?
It’s like a royal “we”.
They are referring to their democracy – it their club and we aren’t in it.
It implies they love mob rule and want to destroy the republican form of government.
Bing…winner winner
Well, so he found a way around the fact that many of us refuse to support the RNC. I tell them when they call, that until they stop supporting and begin to control their rinos, I will support the candidates directly. Now, this.
Save America Pac sends a cut to the RNC by using Winred.
DeSantis number blocked.
Email unsubscribed.
No money in that direction,
My money goes to my president.
We have gotten rid of our congress critter Jamie. She voted to impeach.
The McConnell-linked Senate Leadership Fund super PAC recently slashed $8 million in ads for Masters in Arizona, leaving a huge spending gulf.Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said Masters will “probably not” be able to win without more assistance.
I just posted the latest poll upstream. Kelly 47%, Masters 45%, within the margin of error.
Grassroots donations to the MAGA Republicans, should scare the big club, we want representatives for our voice.
FJB!
F the Republican Party
God Bless America
Deo vindice!
Get rid of McConnell, ASAP!
A Republican majority in the Senate sure mattered in putting 3 Constitutionalists on the Supreme Court.
The more I think about it, the more I believe rallies are the way for Trump to handle this. And I feel bad wanting him to do more rallies because they’re a lot of work compared to throwing some money at a candidate. But the rallies are very effective we know, and it also gives Trump a chance to do his own campaigning.
I see there’s a rally coming up on Sep 17. 🙂
I got a text yesterday from the DeSantis campaign wanting a donation.
I text, STOP, to quit receiving the texts from them. I also blocked and unsubscribed emails
from any Republican Rino’s. They’ll not get another penny from me.
Sundance, I can’t tell you how much joy I get reading some of your postings. You bring much needed sanity into this crazy political scene. Our good old Kentucky Tortoise would much prefer a nice small republican caucus that is easy to control and manipulate. Can’t have people who will actually hold the leadership to account. Same with Kevin McCarthy.
I received an email from. MAGA Candidate saying their donations were below that of the Dims.
Do I think GOP RINOS are f’ing with the numbers? You beat! 🧐
Good thing we know MAGA can campaign with less money and win more.
I’m just saying someone in the GOP will be in major treasonous trouble with interfering in finances and elections.
Let’s see RINOS convos with Big Tech!
Who exactly runs Big Tech? Alphabet Organizations?
This is something I’ve been pointing out to people. MAGA is winning due to message not money. It’s why the other side, whether dem or rino, has to spend so much money to even compete. We all know, and so do they, that if conservative politicians who were really conservative, had been in office since Reagan then Dems would have never won again.
No dem has ever won a re-election the way Reagan did in 1984. And PDJT probably did better than that.
***🤡 Bet! !!
Don’t forget the DOJ is now “investigating” Trumps fundraising so they are probably working in concert with the turtle. They are trying to get PDJT to either bleed his resources or they will freeze the funds through said “investigation”.
I’m so tired of this BS.
the only way to get them out is to let them lose, big time. even help them lose. if they don’t care about you, how ‘lesser’ are they of the two evils? evil is evil.
divorce them. stop the abuse.
This will help to shed a little more light on the subject. The NRSC (cough, choke, gag) is having funding problems (thank God that conservatives have finally figured out that the NRSC is a ruse). There is hope for us after all!
So they’re playing the blame game, and they’re asking Mitch to open up his coffers to help put senators in office, but after reading the above article, it’s a foregone conclusion that Mitchy said no and is putting public pressure on Trump to spend his money instead.
“NRSC Money Crisis Leaves Top Republicans Feuding”https://redstate.com/joesquire/2022/09/07/nrsc-money-crisis-leaves-top-republicans-feuding-n624005
But what it really comes down to is, Mitchy is now having problems targeting MAGA candidates for elimination because there’s not enough money…
“Kevin McCarthy, GOP Elites and Super PACs Spend $5 Million to Destroy MAGA Candidate Karoline Leavitt in NH Primary – Leavitt Joins Tucker (VIDEO)”https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/kevin-mccarthy-gop-elites-super-pacs-spend-5-million-destroy-maga-candidate-karoline-leavitt-nh-primary-leavitt-joins-tucker-video/
I haven’t given the RNC, RSC or the RCC a penny in years and will refuse to do so so. Will donate to Trumps PAC
The Kentucky Cockroach is gonna look great with that noose around his turkey neck.
Lets be honest here…Mitch or Trump needs to go. Both have forgotten they are supposed to be on the same side. The time they spend battling each other is time they don’t spend battling the Democrats. Personally, I’ve never trusted Mitch. Besides stopping Garland from joining the SCOTUS I/m not a fan. Actually I didn’t agree with how he handle the Garland nomination at the time. I didn’t do my homework on Garland…I was working.
Listen sonny ,the Republican leader in the Senate is to help the President not the other way around .
As soon as president Trump announces his candidacy watch the money flow in.
This is America at work. They saw the swamp and responded by donating directly to their candidate and not a cesspool of parties who want business as usual. Keep up the good work Americans!
Mitch wants DJT to help Graham, Rubio, Thune, etc., after they are blatantly anti- Trump??
So, the best possible political move for DeSantis right now is to drop $100M of his PAC money on Trump candidates. Bet you he won’t.
Time to force the turtle back into his shell forever. Then pack him up and send him home, never to be seen of heard from again.
A lot of us want Mitch and McCarthy gone. The only way for that to happen is to put the right republicans in the House and Senate, regardless of the state they are in. Those would be the republicans or even independents who recognize the perfidy of the minority leaders and their minions of BOTH parties.
There are 50 million of us. We all need to support MAGA candidates wherever they are with our money. If all 50 million of us MAGA supporters sent $1.00 to each MAGA candidate, we can take a step toward wresting control from those who have and will continue to abet the globalist takeover of our country.
a single MAGA ad should suffice. MAGA’s should be shunning him
The idea Washington DC politicians are allowed PACs is nuts.
Why should a sitting Senator in a leadership role be allowed to influence/finance candidates in other States?
Too much power and influence and payback here.
And BTW, who is auditing these PACs?
The turtle is probably using his PAC money to fund democrats.
My feeling is this is the perfect environment for American loving patriots to simply vote R. Don’t vote for anyone with a D after their name and that settles all the rumblings about funds. Everyone who despises JB should understand that if they vote for a D candidate, that candidate turns around and votes for JB’s agenda. So, in AZ, the answer is that you vote for Masters.
GOPe = GOP elite.
Washington D.C. government is corrupted….bad goverment…Trump and MAGA are about good government….thus hated by the leftists…all we have is the vote…overwhelm the steal…that’s all we got…