{"id":1030080,"date":"2024-03-13T16:24:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T16:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1030080"},"modified":"2024-05-23T19:56:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T19:56:16","slug":"icymi-financial-times-chaos-in-donald-trumps-republican-party-will-boost-joe-biden-democratic-memo-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-financial-times-chaos-in-donald-trumps-republican-party-will-boost-joe-biden-democratic-memo-says\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Financial Times: \u2018Chaos\u2019 in Donald Trump\u2019s Republican party will boost Joe Biden, Democratic memo says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"341\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1031397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png 1500w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=300,100 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=768,256 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=1024,341 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point:<\/strong> \u201c\u2018Voters, donors, and staff alike are either fleeing the MAGA-fied Republican party or being chaotically forced out in a mass purge, casting a troubling shadow on the committee\u2019s balance sheet and their prospects at the ballot box leading into a critical election year,\u2019 wrote DNC executive director Sam Cornale.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/ee38f165-fdd1-41b2-97ea-844f90314ffe\"><strong>Financial Times<\/strong><\/a>: <strong>\u2018Chaos\u2019 in Donald Trump\u2019s Republican party will boost Joe Biden, Democratic memo says<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By: James Politi and Lauren Fedor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In a memo to be released on Wednesday and obtained by the Financial Times, the Democratic National Committee said its counterpart \u2014 the Republican National Committee \u2014 was \u201cbarely able to stay afloat\u201d amid fundraising struggles and internal strife.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>\u201cVoters, donors, and staff alike are either fleeing the MAGA-fied Republican party or being chaotically forced out in a mass purge, casting a troubling shadow on the committee\u2019s balance sheet and their prospects at the ballot box leading into a critical election year,\u201d<\/strong> wrote DNC executive director Sam Cornale.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>[Trump\u2019s] campaign and the RNC have been lagging behind Biden in terms of fundraising and in the amount of cash they have on hand, just as an election battle that is expected to be the most expensive in history gets under way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>At the end of 2023, Biden groups had about $118mn in cash on hand, compared with about $66mn for Trump groups<\/strong>. The difference \u2014 $52mn \u2014 was equal to the Trump groups\u2019 legal costs in criminal and civil cases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The mounting legal costs have raised concerns among some donors that any money they give to Trump or the party might be used to cover the former president\u2019s defence in court, rather than help his campaign or other Republicans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Democratic officials believe that Trump\u2019s takeover of the RNC will only harm Republicans \u2014 and help their own prospects \u2014 in the November election, both at the presidential level and in congressional and other races.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>\u201cThis latest MAGA rebrand with Whatley and Lara Trump at the helm won\u2019t do the RNC any favours, and it doesn\u2019t bode well for down-ballot Republicans,\u201d Cornale wrote in the DNC memo.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>\u201cPledging to spend the RNC\u2019s non-existent war chest on Trump\u2019s legal bills is not a good pitch to donors, who are already refusing to donate\u201d, Cornale wrote. In contrast, he said the DNC was \u201cbreaking fundraising records, and are in a strong position to keep building our already massive war chest\u201d.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201c\u2018Voters, donors, and staff alike are either fleeing the MAGA-fied Republican party or being chaotically forced out in a mass purge, casting a troubling shadow on the committee\u2019s balance sheet and their prospects at the ballot box leading into a critical election year,\u2019 wrote DNC executive director Sam Cornale.\u201d Financial Times: \u2018Chaos\u2019 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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