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Nobody Trusts the DNC Anymore and the Money Proves It
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Hawk nerds out on party mechanics, and the subject is the Democratic National Committee under chairman Ken Martin. He starts with what the DNC actually is: a body that recruits candidates and raises money, not one that sets policy. Recent reporting has the committee roughly 2 million dollars in debt, against an RNC holding around 110 million.
Hawk pushes back on how that gap is being framed. The headline 510 million Republican figure folds in the roughly 400 million sitting in Donald Trump's personal super PAC, money Hawk notes Trump has not spent to help a single Republican candidate this cycle. Set that aside, he argues, and the comparison looks very different. He also explains why so many Democratic donors abandoned the DNC after 2016, when hacked emails revealed the committee favoring Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders, and why small-dollar donors now give directly to candidates instead.
From there Hawk covers a New York Times report describing Martin as isolated and struggling, the botched 2024 autopsy report and the rough Jon Favreau interview that followed, the fight over moving South Carolina to the front of the primary calendar, and James Carville floating David Hogg as a replacement. His bottom line: the DNC is a mess, but the candidates are funded and positioned to retake the House.
#DNC #KenMartin #DonaldTrump #DavidHogg #JamesCarville #JonFavreau #HakeemJeffries #BernieSanders #HillaryClinton #SuperPAC #Democrats #CampaignFinance #Primaries #SouthCarolina #Midterms #RNC #Politics #News #CurrentEvents #Hawk
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