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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's all a big fundraising scam
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It's all a big fundraising scam!!!
They're gonna try and retire general election campaign debt and build their war chests by rallying behind a delusional outgoing president when they know Biden will be President on 01/20/21.
Our campaign finance system allows/incentivizes this!
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It's all a big fundraising scam (Original Post)
octoberlib
Nov 2020
OP
You're right. I didn't think about the Senate race. They know Trump supporters would stay home
octoberlib
Nov 2020
#4
McTurtle's angle isn't fundraising, it is riling up Repukes to drive turnout in the GA runoffs
RockRaven
Nov 2020
#3
McConnell would sell his children to remain head of the Senate , so I agree.
octoberlib
Nov 2020
#13
TDale313
(7,822 posts)1. Yep. Also, I agree with the theory that Mitch
Really is just trying to fire up the base for the Georgia Senate run-offs. I think he knows Trumps toast.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)4. You're right. I didn't think about the Senate race. They know Trump supporters would stay home
if the Senate didn't support Trump.
Blue Owl
(58,183 posts)2. Remember MAGAts, your glorious leader is BROKE
And also a JOKE
RockRaven
(18,749 posts)3. McTurtle's angle isn't fundraising, it is riling up Repukes to drive turnout in the GA runoffs
He cares about preserving a Senate majority above everything else.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)13. McConnell would sell his children to remain head of the Senate , so I agree.
For Trump, it's grifting.
FakeNoose
(40,248 posts)5. Of course it is! Watch Chump announce his "Re-election Campaign 2024"
... on the day he's out of his current job, January 20th, 2021.
NCDem47
(3,328 posts)7. During Biden's inauguration no doubt.
Brainfodder
(7,781 posts)11. Is that before or after he gets his new jewelry?
lisa58
(5,808 posts)6. Absolutely- Trump is nothing if not a scammer
LakeArenal
(29,949 posts)8. But an effin successful one. People are sheep.
lisa58
(5,808 posts)9. And that's what's so sad
thucythucy
(9,043 posts)10. It may be a fundraising scam for the Trump family, but it's also
a way for Moscow Mitch and the other GOP dead-enders to delegitimize the Biden presidency from the get-go.
"Voter fraud" is this year's birther conspiracy theory.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)14. Good point. I agree.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)12. Paying off campaign debt