According to a report from the Washington Post, donations to the Republican National Committee are at an eight-year low.
"The Republican National Committee disclosed that it had $9.1 million in cash on hand as of Oct. 30, the lowest amount for the RNC in any Federal Election Commission report since February 2015,” the Post reports. "That compares with about $20 million at the same point in the 2016 election cycle and about $61 million four years ago, when Trump was in the White House."
The Democratic National Committee has nearly twice as much cash on hand. Granted, the Biden campaign and the DNC have been doing joint fundraising, while the Republicans are still in the middle of a primary. But considering Joe Biden’s terrible poll numbers, it’s hard to comprehend how the Democrats are crushing the Republicans in fundraising.
The problem that the RNC is facing right now is that donors large and small just aren’t donating like they used to. And it’s hard to blame them. Despite having a bigger haul of cash in 2016 and 2020, what exactly does the RNC have to show for it now?
The Republican Party hasn’t won the national popular vote in a presidential race for nearly twenty years. It almost sounds strange to say it, and you’re almost inclined to think that can’t be possible, but it’s true. The last time a Republican candidate won the national popular vote was in 2004, though it was with such a narrow margin that the outcome of the Electoral College could have been swayed by a single state. Unlike the presidential election of 2000, which hinged on the results of Florida, Ohio ended up being the deciding state--and George W. Bush won there by a mere 118,000 votes.
The tight race there nearly prompted John Kerry to challenge the results over bogus allegations of voting “irregularities” statewide. Even though there was no proof of this, a group of Democrats filed an objection to the counting of Ohio’s electoral votes and sought to delay certification of the 2004 presidential election results. It didn’t go anywhere, but, as recently as 2018, John Kerry said that he still believes that Bush stole the election from him.
Since then, Republicans have lost the national popular vote every time. Trump’s 2016 victory in the Electoral College also marked the second time in recent history that the winner of the national popular vote lost the election—each time it was the Republican who lost the popular vote. On top of that, the 2022 midterms were an incredible disappointment, as the red wave that we were expecting never materialized. In the past three years, two red states have elected two Democrat U.S. senators each.
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In other words, why donate to the RNC, which has been plagued by a culture of losing lately? According to recent reports, the RNC didn’t help out in the recent elections in Virginia, an important state that has the potential to turn red again. Meanwhile, each presidential election cycle the RNC has agreed to debates that are hosted and moderated by leftists who ask biased questions and falsely fact-check GOP candidates.
Yeah, I’m not interested in supporting such stupid decisions, and sadly, we keep seeing that the RNC would sooner accept the status quo than make an effort to change the culture of losing. I know it’s easy to blame the leadership, but most RNC chairs tend to know when they’re no longer an asset, and somehow Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel hasn’t gotten the message yet.
The RNC is long past due for a change. Until that happens, it’s hard to see the point in donating.
