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Trump-backed candidates confront cash wave
Axios ^ | Feb. 1, 2022 | Lachlan Markay

Posted on 02/01/2022 9:24:23 AM PST by Eagle Forgotten

Some of Donald Trump's handpicked candidates are hitting an obstacle in their efforts to purge the Republican Party of Trump skeptics: money. Lots of it.

Driving the news: Key Trump-backed Republican challengers were heavily outraised by their Republican primary opponents late last year, newly filed financial reports show.

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


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The left (Axios is hard left) is crowing about the RINOs' financial advantage over conservatives. The article gives several specific examples.

I wonder how much of that RINO money is coming from the "never-Trump" faction within the GOP and how much is coming from Democrats.

1 posted on 02/01/2022 9:24:23 AM PST by Eagle Forgotten
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To: Eagle Forgotten

If the Trump backed candidates are truly popular with the voters the money should come.


2 posted on 02/01/2022 9:28:59 AM PST by plain talk
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To: Eagle Forgotten
I've never understood why money should make much difference. Study the candidates, choose the best. If Trump endorses the candidate, he or she is probably best. It's got nothing to do with who has the money.


3 posted on 02/01/2022 9:29:16 AM PST by Cinnamontea
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To: Eagle Forgotten

C of C is also a suspect.


4 posted on 02/01/2022 9:29:36 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Eagle Forgotten

I’m so old I remember when the leftist press hated citizens United and decried all the fat cats funding their favored people.


5 posted on 02/01/2022 9:29:40 AM PST by Skywise
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Second article Ive seen pitching how much money the uniparty is raising. It won’t work. People are pissed. The uniparty has no idea.


6 posted on 02/01/2022 9:30:29 AM PST by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer.)
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To: plain talk
If the Trump backed candidates are truly popular with the voters the money should come.

It's not all about money to Trumplicans. Jeb! spent a fortune in 2016 and barely registered.

7 posted on 02/01/2022 9:31:31 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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For the informed, thats seems true. Sadly it would appear the uniformed will just see the TV ads that are most run on their HD widescreen between game shows, soaps, and sitcoms.


8 posted on 02/01/2022 9:32:28 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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Money is FAR less important than it was.

Money funds the Swamp of campaign directors. It’s not important for advertising anymore because that can be done cheaply online. Travel and rallies are about it, and you don’t need much staff for that.


9 posted on 02/01/2022 9:32:57 AM PST by Owen
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To: Eagle Forgotten

The cash donated to the RINO globalist are coming from foreign billionaires like scumbag Soros and communist China.

On the other hand, the MAGA candidates are receiving funding from thousands of individual small donors who are actually real AMERICAN citizens.

A billionaire only has a single vote so let them waste their money. Nothing in creation is going to stop the onslaught that is coming.


10 posted on 02/01/2022 9:33:30 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: Eagle Forgotten

Hillary had a gazillion dollars in her war chest.
Didn’t help her....................


11 posted on 02/01/2022 9:33:48 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Maybe ask Jeb how having a big cash advantage works out.


12 posted on 02/01/2022 9:36:14 AM PST by BobL (Money is the most important thing in my life.)
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Oh but it does matter who has the money. Money can change minds. Democrats are the worst about getting all the money they can. When they get in office it’s like all gov. money is their piggy bank. They stick together and get rich. How many times have we seen stories of dem criminals, and some actually get punished.


13 posted on 02/01/2022 9:37:28 AM PST by TribalPrincess2U
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I've never understood why money should make much difference.

I agree with the point Magnum44 made in response to you. FReepers pay much more attention to politics than the average person. Money doesn't make much difference -- to us. But TV advertising is expensive, and a barrage of TV advertising can swing a lot of votes among people who aren't spending any time studying the candidates.

The RINOs' money advantage is a real concern.
14 posted on 02/01/2022 9:38:25 AM PST by Eagle Forgotten
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There is not enough money in THE KNOWN UNIVERSE to get many of these Rinos elected over a Trump backed alternative.


15 posted on 02/01/2022 9:38:40 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: Eagle Forgotten

These next 10 months are going to interesting in already very interesting times and forever interesting times.

Like a nightmare of run-on sentences forever.


16 posted on 02/01/2022 9:40:38 AM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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To: Eagle Forgotten

The unit party strikes back. I wonder how involved Soros is?


17 posted on 02/01/2022 9:40:41 AM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: Eagle Forgotten

In today’s internet based world, money becomes virtually irrelevant.
A small amount of funds can make a huge impact.
Don’t be fooled by the cash game.

Bush league chamber of commerce worshipping republiCANT’S need to be politically slaughtered.
By any and all means.


18 posted on 02/01/2022 9:43:08 AM PST by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: Sans-Culotte

If the Trump backed candidates are truly popular with the voters the money should come.

It’s not all about money to Trumplicans. Jeb! spent a fortune in 2016 and barely registered.

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hildabeast out spent trump by a hugh margin in 2016.

china mitch & mccathy are funneling their PAC money to other Rinos they can control


19 posted on 02/01/2022 9:45:00 AM PST by thinden
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To: Eagle Forgotten
The first rule in driving is "First, get through the intersection.".

Then worry about which lane you're in.

20 posted on 02/01/2022 9:47:22 AM PST by G Larry (The "Racism" charge is code for "No Intelligent Argument")
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