Total Disaster: Democrats Midterm April Fundraising Numbers Are The Worst Since 2006

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

townhall
matt vespa, May 21, 2018

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/05/21/total-disaster-democrats-midterm-april-fundraising-numbers-are-the-worst-since-2-n2482788

Well, it seems the Democratic Party’s fundraising slump continues, even as Election Day draws closer. Polling shows that Democratic enthusiasm has stalled, though last Tuesday’s primaries showed the far left dominated, booting the more centrist candidates the establishment backed. While a lot of things should be going for the Democrats, the opposing party in the White House, history favoring the minority party in an off-year election, and the Left’s unhinged hatred for Trump, that intensity hasn’t translated into filling the war chest for the Democratic National Committee. They just had their worst fundraising month (April) in a midterm year since 2006. As of right now, the DNC only has $3.4 million cash on hand compared to the $43.8 million the Republican National Committee has tucked away.

Raising money has been a serial failure for the DNC—and it’s not just their April numbers. In November of 2017, they fired their top fundraiser after assuring journalists at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast that month that all was well at the DNC; chair Tom Perez even said that. The January numbers were also trash. The depth of their misery they tried to bury in an FEC report during President Trump's first State of the Union. It did not go unnoticed. The committee has been purgedand re-purged of staff in efforts to reboot the committee, while its chair has taken a side job as a professor at Brown University.

While the media stress that there’s divisions within the GOP, and there were, it all ended in December of 2017 when Trump signed the tax reform into law. And even with such divisions, we unite. We know the Democrat is far worse option in an election, especially now. The Tea Party has misgivings about Romney in 2012; he was able to mobilize the base to vote for him. There were definitely similar questions posited to Trump, and yet—90 percent of the party voted for him. Democrats are facing an underreported left wing insurgency that’s picking off their centrist and left-of-center candidates; candidates the DNC thinks can pick off from the GOP come November. They got a brutal awakeninglast Tuesday. The far left wing is ascendant in Democratic Party politics—but there are enough Democrats of the old order who are not willing to cave to the Bernie-ization of the party. Things can an probably will get bloody.

 

[Right_in_Virginia]

I'm expecting these numbers to drop for May .... after the Dimm's stellar decision to defend MS13.

[DCPatriot]

I'm expecting these numbers to drop for May .... after the Dimm's stellar decision to defend MS13.

Didn't the Democrats win back the House and Senate in 2006 mid-terms?   

[Right_in_Virginia]

Didn't the Democrats win back the House and Senate in 2006 mid-terms?

Yes, they did @DCPatriot

[DCPatriot]

Yes, they did @DCPatriot

@Right_in_Virginia

So....that's how much stock we should put into this essay.   ^-^

[Emjay]

I'm expecting these numbers to drop for May .... after the Dimm's stellar decision to defend MS13.

They made an egregious blunder there.  But, sadly, they don't even know it.  They are so inbred, so isolated from reality, they think defending vicious killers works with the public.

[DCPatriot]

They made an egregious blunder there.  But, sadly, they don't even know it.  They are so inbred, so isolated from reality, they think defending vicious killers works with the public.

How much is the prison vote worth?  IMO, that was the target demographic. 

"Animals"??   See?  That's what Trump and the GOP think of you.

They sure are focused.   LOL! 

[the_doc]

@DCPatriot
@Emjay

I'm expecting these numbers to drop for May .... after the Dimm's stellar decision to defend MS13.

The stupefyingly dishonest MSM's ratings are also going to plummet further. 

When all of the crimes of the Deep State get exposed to the public between May 2018 and, say, May 2019, the numbers will get even worse for the Dems and the MSM.  They will probably bottom out at around 25 percent, I think, because about a fourth of the American electorate is invincibly ignorant (the theological term Wm Buckley appropriately borrowed for the over-the-top depravity of some reprobates).

Jerome Corsi has said that the Dems are "finished" (even if they don't know it yet)  Let's just hope Trump survives long enough to make Corsi correct.

(Dr. Corsi has a long relationship with Trump, and although I believe he has badly overstated Trump's overall spiritual integrity, Corsi is obviously correct in saying that our bizarre POTUS is extremely patriotic--and also that Trump is solidly backed by the American military, including military intelligence.)

 

[DCPatriot]

@DCPatriot
@Emjay

The stupefyingly dishonest MSM's ratings are also going to plummet further. 

When all of the crimes of the Deep State get exposed to the public between May 2018 and, say, May 2019, the numbers will get even worse for the Dems and the MSM.  They will probably bottom out at around 25 percent, I think, because about a fourth of the American electorate is invincibly ignorant (the theological term Wm Buckley appropriately borrowed for the over-the-top depravity of some reprobates).

Jerome Corsi has said that the Dems are "finished" (even if they don't know it yet)  Let's just hope Trump survives long enough to make Corsi correct.

(Dr. Corsi has a long relationship with Trump, and although I believe he has badly overstated Trump's overall spiritual integrity, Corsi is obviously correct in saying that our bizarre POTUS is extremely patriotic--and also that Trump is solidly backed by the American military, including military intelligence.)

 

I wish I had your faith, @the_doc .     The most insidious power of the media is the Power to ignore.   

[Formerly Once-Ler]

CNN paints a different picture.  https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/18/politics/house-democrats-republicans-midterms-fundraising/index.html

Democratic House candidates hold fundraising edge after 1st quarter

Washington (CNN)Democratic candidates outraised Republican candidates in 49 of the 88 US House campaigns identified by CNN as key races in 2018, according to an analysis of first-quarter Federal Election Commission filings.

Even among the GOP's best shots -- campaigns identified as "toss-ups," "lean Republican" and "likely Republican" -- the leading Democrat outraised the leading Republican in 32 of 66 of those races. The CNN analysis looked at total receipts for each campaign, which include contributions from individuals, authorized groups, loans and expenditure offsets.

One of the key themes of the first quarter of 2018: Republican incumbents are in some trouble. In races across the country, GOP candidates are struggling with listless fundraising and robust challengers.

more at link

However CNN doesn't factor in that "divisions within the GOP...all ended in December of 2017 when Trump signed the tax reform into law. And even with such divisions, we unite." /sarc