You can’t open and staff field offices with money you don’t have.
GOP fundraising sucks. Ordinary Conservatives have stopped giving it money and the Koch Bros. well only goes so deep. And I don’t know if anyone else has notced all the Koch Industries ads, but they’re pumping a LOT of money into their own Corporate PR, money that isn’t going to Republicans.
The Dems, on the other hand have many Koch-level donors. AND they’ve proven adept at separating their own idiot small-dollar donors from their disposable income. How much $$$ did they raise off of two weeks of a contrived impeachment scare campaign?
And why don’t the GOP have more donors?
I think the answer is pretty clear.