Republican senators are sounding the alarm bells over Donald Trump’s weak fundraising game, warning that he could hurt the Republicans running for senate in November.
“It weakens the whole party,” Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) told Buzzfeed News about Trump’s meager fundraising number for the month of May.
The presumptive Republican presidential candidate raised $3.1 million in May, while Hillary Clinton pulled in $26.4 million.
Flake noted that Trump’s fundraising woes just add to the negative impact his candidacy in general could have on Republican senators.
“This whole campaign is not good down-ballot. It’s not good. None of this is good,” he said, according to Buzzfeed News.
Sen. John Thune (R-SD) said that Trump needs to work on his fundraising.
“If he’s got what he says is true that he can eventually write the check, but I think most campaigns — successful campaigns — are based on contributions from a lot of people,” he said, according to Buzzfeed News. “So I guess I would hope that he would turn on the fundraising mechanism and that we’ll see evidence of them taking seriously the need to put resources in the bank to get his message out.”
Jeff, dude, you say that like it’s a bad thing.
So what’s the downside?
Looking at the fundraising email from Trump that Josh posted, I kept looking for the promise of a set of Trump Steak Knives with each pledge, and suggestions that supporters max out several credit cards to help him out.
He doesn’t even have any professionals putting together his fundraising efforts - it’s the same kind of nonsense bluster we get from the candidate in person. Nothing about actual policies - it’s all just “we need to be winners, and defeat those liberal losers.” Amateur hour.
As much as it is a good thing to watch the GOP finally get its come-uppance maybe all this fund raising failure should be a good point in discussions about campaign finance reform. It is a bit insane how much money is needed and has to be raised at great effort.
Even if money didn’t influence decisions shouldn’t we have a better way to finance campaigns? Do we want our lawmakers making laws or running around begging for money?
Yes I know all of this is obvious, but it is worth repeating.
It’s ALL GOOD!