Posted on 08/02/2017 5:30:20 AM PDT by Helicondelta
Republican senators are bucking President Donald Trump’s calls to revive the health care debate. And Trump just ousted his only top White House aide with deep links to the Republican Party.
But the president and his party won’t be calling it quits any time soon. They remain tightly linked by a force more powerful than politics or personal ties: cash.
Trump’s fundraising prowess is the engine of the Republican National Committee and a lifeline for every Republican planning to rely on the party for financial help during next year’s congressional races. Leaning heavily on Trump’s appeal among small donors, the party has raised $75 million in the first six months of the year, more than double what the Democratic National Committee had raised by the same point in President Barack Obama’s first year.
“The president is somebody who absolutely is an asset when it comes to fundraising,” RNC chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel said. Trump resonates with a base of Republicans who have been more willing this year than ever before to chip in. The party says it collected more cash online in the first six months of the year than in all of 2016.
In late June, Trump played star and host of a fundraiser for his re-election campaign and the RNC. The event at the Trump International Hotel, just down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, raised $10 million to be divided between Trump and the party, the kind of bounty usually reserved for the final months before an election.
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No way am I ever going to give money to republicans are you guys reading these senators quotes. They need straight up lynching these republicans are in Congress are vile as the Democrats they just lie differently. They want to lose the majority so to impeach trump. These idiots are going to cause a civil war
Trump is going to have to stop raising money for these treacherous leaches in Congress and concentrate on finding strong pro Trump candidates to primary these GOP creeps in Congress.
Yup - I’m convinced the Senate will purposefully not pass anything meaningful to get back at Trump, even if it means costing a couple of them their jobs. The house will be slightly more willing to play along due to election every 2 years rather than 6 but either way Trump in about 6 months need to pivot to raising $ for pro-Trump people only.
“And Trump just ousted his only top White House aide with deep links to the Republican Party.”
Who didn’t do squat.
When/how does the purging start(senate).
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