Posted on 12/21/2023 7:51:54 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The mere mention of the Republican National Committee to anyone on the right is bound to elicit a variety of emotions. Early in the year, a contentious battle over who would chair the organization transpired, with Ronna McDaniel ultimately being re-elected to the position a fourth time.
Since then, questions about the RNC's effectiveness have abounded. During the 2023 election, reports emerged that the Virginia Republican Party asked for help and were denied. McDaniel responded by saying that because the RNC is a federal committee, it couldn't be expected to participate in state races. Given all races ultimately happen at the state level, I'm not sure how convincing that excuse was.
Whoever is to blame, Republicans certainly missed some opportunities due to a lack of resources, being outspent in every single major race except in Mississippi's gubernatorial contest (and that was almost evenly split).
That begs the question of whether the RNC has or will have the resources needed to truly make a difference in 2024.
Republican National Committee cash on hand at end of November:
2016 $21,354,030
2017 $39,838,889
2018 $27,008,324
2019 $63,233,392
2020 $58,777,814
2021 $65,468,902
2022 $17,275,601
2023 $9,956,381NEW FEC F3X REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE RCPT $7,970,718 EXPN $7,134,293 COH $9,956,381 http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00003418/1740350
https://t.co/0MDMAwzZD8 pic.twitter.com/BoY2j1aTFA— Rob Pyers (@rpyers) December 20, 2023
McDaniel took over the RNC with a cash-on-hand number of roughly $21.4 million. As of the latest filing in November of 2023, the committee only has $9.9 million. By comparison, the DNC has $20 million in the bank, over doubling what Republicans have.
The point of highlighting these numbers isn't to write a rant about McDaniel. It's to point out that whatever the RNC is doing, it's not working. I would expect the fundraising to pick up in the Spring as the election begins to draw near, but the starting point is dire, and I don't think pretending otherwise is going to help anyone involved.
So what can be done? I'm not the RNC chair, so I'm not going to claim to have (nor should I be expected to have) all the answers. I would suggest that the current fundraising strategy of bombarding the same mailing lists over and over with "5x matching" promotions and other gimmicks isn't working. What the RNC needs is to rebuild trust, and I'm not sure how that happens.
Some will suggest a change in leadership, but there doesn't appear to be any stomach for that when it comes to the party's actual powerbrokers. Regardless, it doesn't matter where you put the blame. All that matters are the results. If the RNC is struggling to raise money leading into a presidential election, then something is wrong, and changes need to be made. People can fight over the details, but I hope we can all admit that much.
I am proud to be partly responsible for that.
If any Republican elected official in this country wants to send money to Ukraine and there are more than a 100 in Congress who do let the GOP suffer “collective punishment”.
Hmm. If only they could think of some reason or rationalization for this.
i have never given these people a dime. yeah. i know some of my individual candidates, started turning over money to them. that was always my queue to stop supporting them.
It’s the lack of good leadership not money.
“let the GOP suffer “collective punishment”.”
Unfortunately this collective punishment takes the whole country down, not the GOP. Trump as president with Dem controlled house and or senate will be a painful, useless 4 years.
Wait, they have $9.1 million cash on hand AND $2.3 million in debt? So they actually only have a little under $7 million in the real world. Great job, Ronna. Another Ronna red wave comin’ huh?
This is a self inflicted wound on their part.
The RNC over the past decade (if not longer) has been deaf to the demands of those who they supposedly represent and only focus on pleasing the “big fish” of the party.
I hear that Trump fellow is doing pretty good.
Perhaps they should go talk to him.
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This is a GOOD story, actually. All the money are going DIRECTLY to the candidates that WE want, not what the Establishment is pushing. MORE IMPORTANTLY, it’s NOT going to the candidates who want to knock OUR candidates off.
Too bad the GOP members need to change their minds quickly is Lindsey Graham listening because it will be the fault of people like him for the “collective punishment”
By the way send money to Congressman Thomas Massie and MTG and Senator Rand Paul for sure but not other GOPees.
Money to only Trump and MAGA candidates.
The GOP believes in and will fight for:
1) Open borders
2) A global open market in labor
3) Offshoring productive industries
4) Financialization of the economy
5)) Severing the medium of exchange function of money from the store of value function.
6) Usury as the main engine of consumption.
7) Denying the people their natural, healthy love of their nation
8) Overseas wars on behalf of alien peoples without recompense for our sacrifice.
9) Forced "diversity" with its attendent decline in standards and inevitably accompanying violence.
The GOP has plenty of principles, convictions, and values. YOU must decide if they are yours, or not.
Trump as President with GOP control of Congress was painful and useless.
Don't know how accurate this is but a quick search showed that the DNC is holding $30,564,363 on hand right now.
This is what will get Ronna fired. THe only job of the GOP chair is to raise money, none of the stuff poeple bitch about her for matters. Fail to raise money and she’s toast.
Trump of course knows this, which is why he’s continued to let her have enough rope...
I figure there’s no point in giving until the cheating tactics used in the last elections are no longer possible. Most Republicans won’t even discuss it.
Not a dime to these Vichy Republican swine.
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