Over the past week we have seen an increasing n umbers of media reports about corporate regular Republican donors stop giving money to the party that seems to be having trouble admitting that its head egged on a attempt to hurt members of the US Congress and maybe even hurt the country’s Vice President who IS a Republican…
In this area it seems that Donald Trump will leave again hurting others who got in bed with him in the end…
Typical….
Republicans are worried that a corporate backlash stirred by the deadly Capitol insurrection could crimp a vital stream of campaign cash, complicating the party’s prospects of retaking the Senate in the next election.
The GOP already faces a difficult Senate map in 2022, when 14 Democratic-held seats and 20 Republican ones will be on the ballot. That includes at least two open seats that Republicans will be defending because of the retirements of GOP Sens. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Richard Burr of North Carolina.
But some in the party say the problem may be bigger than the map. Eight Republican senators voted to reject Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden, even after the ransacking of the Capitol by a mob of Donald Trump supporters who were exhorted by the president to stop Congress from certifying Biden’s victory. Five people died in the mayhem, including a Capitol Police officer….
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The lost contributions aren’t disastrous on their own. Political action committees controlled by corporations and industry groups are limited to giving $5,000 to a candidate per year, a sliver of the typical fundraising haul for most Senate candidates.
But two senior Republican strategists involved in Senate races say the cumulative effect of the companies’ decisions could have a bigger impact….