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The Senate GOP is spilling its dirty laundry all over the place, and it couldn’t be more fun

The feud in the Senate Republican conference gets juicier by the day, with more and more senators feeling the need—when pressed by reporters—to take sides. The tension between Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, who is heading up the election arm of the party at National Republican Senate Committee (NRSC), and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has been simmering for months, reaching the knives-out point this week when The New York Times published its investigation into all the millions of dollars Scott has blown this cycle.

August was already bad enough. In an attempt to set low expectations for Republicans taking the majority this election, McConnell suggested that there’s a problem of “quality” in the candidates who advanced in the primaries. Scott answered in an op-ed, not mentioning McConnell by name, saying it was tantamount to “treason” to question any Republican candidate. That’s after other public spats involving Scott’s decision to release a radical and frightening platform for Republicans, which McConnell then trashed.

After what must have been a really fun Republican leadership meeting Tuesday, Scott emerged to insist that he wasn’t talking about McConnell in the op-ed, it was the other traitorous Republicans. He insisted that he and McConnell “are in the same position, we want to win the races and he’s working hard. … He’s committed to win, I’m committed to win.” McConnell, on the other hand, “simply raised his eyebrows when asked if he and Scott were now on the same page.”

McConnell apparently thinks it’s time to just freeze Scott out. He has taken on the task of fundraising for his big super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund, to make sure it has enough funding to make up for all the NRSC losses. He’s also, according to CNN’s sources, told fellow Republican senators to transfer money from their PACs to his instead of giving it to the NRSC. “McConnell decided rather than fight this to focus all his efforts on SLF,” one source told CNN.

The number of online donors to the Republican Party unexpectedly dropped in the first half of 2022, according to a POLITICO analysis of campaign finance data — one in a series of setbacks that have tempered expectations of a red wave in November.

Online fundraising usually ramps up dramatically and predictably over the course of an election cycle. But campaign finance data show that in the first half of this year, the number of people giving federal contributions to Republican candidates and committees through WinRed — the GOP’s widely used donation processing platform — fell to around 913,000 down from roughly 956,000 contributors during the six months prior.

much ado wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 10:37 pm What I think is somewhat amusing is that the focus of the article is about how the number of Republican donors has decreased by about 4.5%, not that the number of Democratic donors has increased by more than 25% (based on figures given in the text).

I take that as good news for Democrats.

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 10:42 pm

much ado wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 10:37 pm What I think is somewhat amusing is that the focus of the article is about how the number of Republican donors has decreased by about 4.5%, not that the number of Democratic donors has increased by more than 25% (based on figures given in the text).

I take that as good news for Democrats.

I will once they can get some equality in state houses and at the state secretary of state level. It may not matter someday if Republicans and their judiciary strip everyone of voting rights.

Suranis wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 4:50 pm Assuming all 165 million women disagree with the decision, and there are no men that disagree with it. Very, very big assumptions

Wouldn't it makes one's heads explode if it were more MEN that were registering than women after the Dobbs decision? I have no idea if it is or not, but it certainly could be the case. And I don't see any reason why it would not be.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 4:55 pm That was a question I had, how many pro-life people were inspired to register after Dobbs? I can't put my hands on it right now, but I did see somewhere where they said Democrat registrations were outpacing Republican ones by 10%.

Poll: Voters Say Republicans Have Not Done Enough to Make Their Case in the Midterms
HANNAH BLEAU 14 Sep 2022

Voters say Republicans have not done enough to make their case for support as the midterms approach, a Convention of States Action/Trafalgar Group survey released Tuesday found. The survey asked, “Have Republicans made a strong enough case as to why you should earn their support in the 2022 midterm elections?”

Unfortunately for Republicans, most voters — 56.1 percent — said Republicans have not made a strong enough case to warrant their support. Just one-third, 33.9 percent, said they have, and ten percent remain unsure. Predictably, 87.1 percent of Democrats said the GOP has not done enough to make a strong case for their support, but a smaller majority of Republicans, 61.1 percent, said they have made a sufficient case, compared to 25.9 percent of Republicans who disagree.

Perhaps most concerning for the GOP is the fact that 57.2 percent of independents agree that Republicans have not done enough to make their case as the midterm elections approach. Just 28 percent of independents say Republicans have made their case, and 14.8 percent remain unsure.

New @trafalgar_group/@COSProject #poll shows majority (56.1%) of #Americans say #GOP has NOT made strong enough case for support in 2022
No by Party:
87.1% #Dem
25.9% #GOP
57.2% #Inds
Report: https://t.co/YkG0jVlcXX pic.twitter.com/pgIexolaIi
— The Trafalgar Group (@trafalgar_group) September 13, 2022

The survey was taken September 2-5, 2022, among 1,084 likely general election voters and has a +/- 2.9 percent margin of error. It comes roughly two months ahead of the midterm elections, where Republicans hope to take back a majority in both the House and Senate. However, recent surveys spell trouble for Republicans, as they appear to be losing their lead on the generic congressional ballot. A Rasmussen Reports survey released last week showed the GOP’s lead over Democrats dropping to four percentage points, falling a single percentage point over the last week:

Rasmussen noted that in September 2018 — before Democrats took the House for the first time in eight years — they had the same four-point advantage on the generic congressional ballot, 46 percent to 42 percent. But as the 2018 November midterm election neared, the margins between Democrats and Republicans became extremely close: Republicans had 46 percent to 45 percent for Democrats.

Republicans, however, are well-positioned to capitalize on the failures over the last two years under total Democrat control in Washington. It was revealed this week, for example, that the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index rose again, up 8.3 percent from one year ago as inflation rages in President Biden’s America. Meanwhile, some Republicans, such as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) are capitalizing on social issues as well, introducing a 15-week pain capable abortion bill on Tuesday to combat the radical left’s desire to legalize partial-birth abortions nationwide.

OrlyLicious @Orly_licious
#MAGA Doom! New Trafalgar Poll: 56.1% MAJORITY of Americans say GOP has NOT made a strong enough case to support them in #Midterms2022.
NO by Party:
57.2% #INDEPENDENTS
25.9% #REPUBLICANS
87.1% #DEMS
Dems keep House & Senate! #ElectionDay #VOTE #BlueCrew #VoteBlue

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Apr 28, 2021
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My new @townhallcom VIP column tells Republicans to "Reject mutations and perverts!"

Leave them for the Dems.
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The Democrats are always fronting that they are somehow on the side of the oppressed, the victimized, and/or the powerless. Except the people they are backing are none of those

OrlyLicious @Orly_licious Replying to @KurtSchlichter and @townhallcom
Just as you said in this column, Kurt, "Republicans can still blow it, and no one is better at it than them." McConnell passed the CR to prove it. And your warning & prediction that if the GOP "betrays us on #GunControl they lose #Midterms2022" is true. Republicans will lose.

Supporters of former President Donald Trump are now not just attacking mail-in voting systems, but are also going after all early voting.

The Daily Beast's Will Sommer writes on Twitter that he's noticed a trend among Trump supporters toward boycotting early voting on the grounds that it is supposedly yet another tool Democrats used to steal the 2020 presidential election.

"Interesting idea emerging from conservative media that Republicans should either vote in-person on election day, or not at all," he observes. "They think all early voting, even from Republicans, somehow helps Democrats cheat."

Foggy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 6:58 pm Numbah Two Son reports that there will be voting booths on campus at UNCW for both early voting and election day, making the election a hot topic amongst the young Earthlings there.

Good thing.