RNC Chair BEGS For Donations After Republican Campaign Money Disappears

RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel is making the media rounds to beg for cash for the Party as their campaign coffers run dry ahead of the midterms. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is sitting on close to $100 million that he refuses to share, even with the candidates that he has endorsed for office. Farron Cousins explains why the Republican Party is having such a hard time raising money right now.

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So last week, RNC chairwoman, Ronna McDaniel had a conference call with some big money, heavy, uh, heavy hitter, Republican donors. And she essentially had to beg them to please open up your wallets because gosh, darnit, we are out of money folks. And of course she tried to ease some of their fears about how terrible the Republican Senate candidates are this year. Something that Mitch McConnell and Carl Rove have been hitting on for quite some time. So McDaniel on the phone call says this, we absolutely have better candidates and a better message, but we do need financial F fire power to drive our effort. Please help us invest in these Senate races, give to any of these Senate candidates, all of these Senate candidates, if you can. So all of them can be on TV, okay, better candidates. You know, it depends on where you stand politically on whether or not your candidates are better.

But I think most independents out there who don't lean one way or the other can look at these nut jobs like Medas and Herschel Walker, and understand that no, these guys are not better as for a better message. You literally have no message, your message going into the midterms is that we're not gonna have a message. We're just gonna talk about how bad Biden is. And Biden's racked up a hell of a lot of political victories in the last couple weeks that have sent his poll numbers back in a positive direction. And y'all got nothing. Y'all, y'all got a criminal down here at Mar Lago, a potential criminal I should clarify. Um, so yeah, that's, that's what y'all got and that's not working out so well for you, but I understand the need to beg for money, right? The Democrats are raising way more money than Republicans.

They're doing way better in the polls, both in the house and the Senate at this point, uh, the latest numbers actually suggest that Democrats could retain control of the house, right? We're less than three months away from the midterms. And that's how much the polls have shifted in just the last month and a half folks that is tremendous. And Ron's scared, right? I mean, her job should be on the line for this. If she loses, you know, the third election in a row, 20 18, 20 20, and now 2022 Republicans would be hard pressed to keep her in that position. Cuz clearly she sucks. But there's another reason she has to beg for money. And that is of course, the fact that the re uh, national Republican senatorial committee, which is the campaign arm of the Republicans in the Senate, headed up by Republican Senator, Rick Scott, um, they've lost all their money, 145 million just gone. And they don't know where it is. In fact, the reports actually say it mysteriously vanished, or it's been wasted. Like the that's like the two options like it mysteriously vanished or it's been wasted. And of course, Republicans

Have been trying to get answers from Rick Scott about where the hell the money went, but they can't get in touch with him because he's off on a luxury yacht off the coast of Italy. So, you know, that's not a good look, you're in charge of a group that raised 173 million, 145 of it dries up. You got 28 million left you're over in Europe on a luxury yacht. Yeah. The optics of that are pretty dang bad. So Ron McDaniel of course, has been reduced to a panhandler for the Republican party. She also admitted though that the reason she's going to these high dollar donors, right, is because the average everyday mom and pop donors, they've just been decimated by the economy now to an extent, obviously, that is true. However, Donald Trump's still sitting on a hundred million dollars and he has seen an increase in his fundraising recently because of the search at Malago.

So his political action committee, the save America pack has a hundred million dollars. He's not sharing it with anybody, but he's still pulling in money from those small money donors. So the problem Ron is not that the small money donors don't have money to give it's that they're giving it to the greedy guy down there in Florida who doesn't wanna share it with your Senate Republican candidates, including the ones that he endorsed.