{"id":1030531,"date":"2024-04-04T22:30:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T22:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1030531"},"modified":"2024-05-10T16:42:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T16:42:02","slug":"maga-in-the-states-a-steaming-crock-of-chaos-and-extremism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/maga-in-the-states-a-steaming-crock-of-chaos-and-extremism\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGA in the States: A Steaming Crock of Chaos and Extremism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter 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><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Under Trump\u2019s leadership, MAGA Republicans\u2019 disarray and disorganization has gotten so disastrous that they can\u2019t even pay their own rent. As their infighting gets worse, it\u2019s becoming more and more apparent that the Republican Party\u2019s inability to govern comes from the top down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Take a look at the latest:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Republican state parties across the country are strapped for cash and struggling to fill key roles in their leadership. Meanwhile, Democrats are out-fundraising Republicans and building on the strong infrastructure necessary for victory in November.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/democrats.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=90379082c3d9e6a03baf3f677&amp;id=7fa0a67219&amp;e=703c8f6570\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WUNC<\/a>:&nbsp;<strong>\u201cThe North Carolina Democratic Party is leading its Republican counterpart in fundraising.<\/strong>&nbsp;Both parties have new leaders but Democrats enter election season with triple what the GOP has in the bank to fund campaign efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe state political party organizations help build the infrastructure for successful campaigns. So far this election cycle, the state Democratic party has raised $5.26 million for its state and federal campaign accounts. The state Republican Party, meanwhile, has raised over $3.34 million across its accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs of the latest campaign finance reports in February, the&nbsp;N.C. Democratic Party had $2.44 million on hand, while the NCGOP had $871,000.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/democrats.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=90379082c3d9e6a03baf3f677&amp;id=bb688b2da8&amp;e=703c8f6570\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arizona Politics<\/a>:&nbsp;<strong>\u201cThe Arizona Republican Party confessed today to the Federal Elections Commission that they failed to report and pay rent \u2018for multiple months\u2019 in 2023 due to their \u2018shortage of cash-flow and donations.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe party says the lack of paid expenses was accurate. \u2018Please note that&nbsp;<strong>the Committee had a shortage of cash-flow and donations up until the end of 2023.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/democrats.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=90379082c3d9e6a03baf3f677&amp;id=35ccc81710&amp;e=703c8f6570\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Providence Journal<\/a>: \u201cThe Rhode Island Republican Party&#8217;s executive director has stepped down and, at least in the short term, will not be replaced.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cState party Chairman Joe Powers Monday said the organization had \u2018not put in a plan to fill the position straight away\u2019 and would be returning to the all-volunteer arrangement that was in place from 2018 until Solorio&#8217;s hiring in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Trump\u2019s extreme, MAGA vision for America is ripping the Republican Party apart, and there aren\u2019t signs that things will get any better.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/democrats.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=90379082c3d9e6a03baf3f677&amp;id=ba6ce26ae1&amp;e=703c8f6570\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a>: \u201cGeorgia GOP leader demands vice-chair resign after he was sanctioned for illegal votes\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe chairman of the Georgia GOP has joined other Republicans in&nbsp;<strong>demanding that the embattled first vice-chair of the state party resign&nbsp;<\/strong>after a judge found he&nbsp;<strong>violated state laws when he voted nine times while serving probation for a felony check forgery sentence.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/democrats.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=90379082c3d9e6a03baf3f677&amp;id=321023a2d1&amp;e=703c8f6570\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Inforum<\/a>: \u201cPort: The NDGOP&#8217;s civil war may be on full display in the opening hours of the party&#8217;s state convention | Opinion\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis controversy is the latest chapter of the NDGOP&#8217;s civil war between populist insurgents, who have seized much of the power within the NDGOP&#8217;s apparatus, and the traditional &#8220;normie&#8221; Republicans who have been winning elections in North Dakota for more than three decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under Trump\u2019s leadership, MAGA Republicans\u2019 disarray and disorganization has gotten so disastrous that they can\u2019t even pay their own rent. As their infighting gets worse, it\u2019s becoming more and more apparent that the Republican Party\u2019s inability to govern comes from the top down. Take a look at the latest: Republican state parties across the country [&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-1030531","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MAGA in the States: A Steaming Crock of Chaos and Extremism - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/maga-in-the-states-a-steaming-crock-of-chaos-and-extremism\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-04-04T22:30:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-10T16:42:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/maga-in-the-states-a-steaming-crock-of-chaos-and-extremism\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/maga-in-the-states-a-steaming-crock-of-chaos-and-extremism\/\",\"name\":\"MAGA in the States: A Steaming Crock of Chaos and Extremism - 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