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Axios: Breitbart News Readers, Trump’s Small-Dollar Donors Steer ‘Modern’ GOP as Corporate Class Fades
Breitbart ^ | Feb 2022 | JOHN BINDER5

Posted on 02/05/2022 8:06:09 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

The “modern Republican” Party is scrapping its old-guard corporate ties and business special interests, an Axios report details, as Breitbart News and small-dollar donors to former President Trump steer the party’s future.

Fourteen of the top GOP consultants and operatives detail how the Republican Party has shifted away from the Chamber of Commerce, the Koch brothers’ network of donor class organizations, National Review, and economic libertarian groups toward Trump’s small-dollar donors, populist-nationalist outlets like Breitbart News, and Tucker Carlson.

These days, it is Trump’s voters, Breitbart News readers, and Carlson viewers that Republicans hope to win over in elections rather than seeking out corporate campaign contributions through endorsements from the Heritage Foundation, FreedomWorks, and the Senate Conservatives Fund.

“You don’t want Breitbart on your ass,” a GOP operative told Axios.

J.D. Vance, the New York Times best-selling author now running for Senate in Ohio, said the party’s shift comes as beltway conservative orthodoxy has been busted through by the likes of Trump, Breitbart News, and Carlson.

“We all owe Donald Trump a great deal for singlehandedly destroying the corrupt globalist and corporatist orthodoxies that previously defined the Republican Party, in favor of a new Republican Party, that is pro-worker and always puts America first,” Vance told Breitbart News.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: donors; elections; gop; trump

1 posted on 02/05/2022 8:06:09 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The parties evolve. Hence the DNC is controlled by communists.


2 posted on 02/05/2022 8:17:06 PM PST by jimfree (My 19 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

LOL. Those “small donors” raised $10 million for Canadian truckers in less than a week. Just wait until TruthSocial, Rumble, and the entire new MAGA tech infrustructure gets rolling.


3 posted on 02/05/2022 8:22:30 PM PST by montag813
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Trump showed the back shelf Republicans that you CAN win. And the so called regular Deplorables are not afraid anymore to speak up.


4 posted on 02/05/2022 8:24:04 PM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable.STILL )
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To: montag813

“LOL. Those “small donors” raised $10 million for Canadian truckers in less than a week.”

And they just caused GoFundMe to lose half of their customer base...supplanted by the America-loving GiveSendGo site, now at $2M for the truckers in less than 24 hours.

https://www.givesendgo.com/FreedomConvoy2022


5 posted on 02/05/2022 8:47:44 PM PST by BobL (Money is the most important thing in my life.)
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To: BobL

I had never heard of GiveSendGo until the brouhaha over the Canadian truckers and GoFundMe.


6 posted on 02/05/2022 8:53:52 PM PST by lasereye
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
“If the U.S. Chamber of Commerce calls you and says ‘We want to endorse,’ You’re like, ‘Please don’t,'” a high-profile GOP political consultant told Axios. Most recently, the Chamber urged President Joe Biden and Congress to double legal immigration levels and provide amnesty to the nation’s 11 to 22 million illegal aliens.

Last year, the Chamber’s political action committee (PAC) donated thousands to Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Todd Young (R-IN), John Thune (R-SD), and Mike Lee (R-UT), as well as to Reps. Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Ashley Hinson (R-IA), Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), Maria Salazar (R-FL), and Don Bacon (R-NE), among others.

The same goes for the Koch network.

Whereas Republicans once vied for campaign cash from the Kochs, major backers of mass immigration and job-killing free trade, candidates try to steer clear of the network while running against open borders and in support of industrial policy to reshore America’s manufacturing base.

“… none of the operatives we interviewed considered Koch support to be important in 2022,” the Axios report notes.

For the 2022 midterms, nearly 100 Republican lawmakers have accepted donations from the Koch Industries PAC, including Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY), Jeff Duncan (R-SC), Don Bacon (R-NE), Tony Gonzalez (R-TX), Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), Ashley Hinson (R-IA), Julia Letlow (R-LA), Jackie Walorski (R-IN), Garret Graves (R-LA), Jim Banks (R-IN), Byron Donalds (R-FL), Yvette Herrell (R-NM), and Jim Jordan (R-OH), among others.

7 posted on 02/05/2022 8:58:20 PM PST by lasereye
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To: jimfree

The GOP had evolved before Trump came along - in the wrong direction. I think a big reason for that is because the corporations/Wall Street have moved to the left, and become highly entangled with China. The typical Republican insider has moved along with them.


8 posted on 02/05/2022 9:02:36 PM PST by lasereye
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Seems to me that’s a good thing


9 posted on 02/06/2022 12:30:53 AM PST by Nifster (I’m see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The big keys for this year:

1) Hunt down and destroy RINOs - as many as possible. That is especially so for key RINOs who stabbed us in the back and who were complicit in the Steal. Kemp, Ratburger, the 10, Murkowski, etc.

2) Get real populist/nationalist MAGA Republicans in the governor’s mansions in Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan. The governors in those 5 key states are all that stands in the way of real election integrity laws with teeth. Get those passed and Republicans have an excellent shot at winning all 5 of those states going forward.

3) take back the House and Senate. Getting rid of hardcore Leftists in red states like Warnock in Georgia and gun grabbing China Sellout Mark Kelly in Arizona is critical.


10 posted on 02/06/2022 5:09:22 AM PST by FLT-bird
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The big keys for this year:

And when you have Majorities in both houses, take the fight to Biden's handlers. Start impeachment hearings if he doesn't sign bills put on his desk in January, and make sure he has significant legislation on his desk in January.

11 posted on 02/06/2022 5:12:02 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: FLT-bird

“Hunt down and destroy the RINO’s”

I like the way you think! I’ll be watching you! (Back to School 1986 film).


12 posted on 02/06/2022 5:20:19 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: jimfree

Corporate communists. Or maybe fascists. They’re not for the proletariat, but for ethnic socialism, one shade removed from national socialism.


13 posted on 02/06/2022 6:33:17 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!I)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is the BEST thing I’ve ever read.


14 posted on 02/06/2022 10:44:02 AM PST by Vaden (First they came for the Confederates... Next they came for Washington... Then they came...)
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