{"id":1274473,"date":"2022-02-05T17:24:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T22:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1274473"},"modified":"2022-02-05T17:24:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T22:24:56","slug":"axios-breitbart-news-readers-trumps-small-dollar-donors-steer-modern-gop-as-corporate-class-fades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/axios-breitbart-news-readers-trumps-small-dollar-donors-steer-modern-gop-as-corporate-class-fades\/","title":{"rendered":"Axios: Breitbart News Readers, Trump&#039;s Small-Dollar Donors Steer &#039;Modern&#039; GOP as Corporate Class Fades"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faxios-breitbart-news-readers-trumps-small-dollar-donors-steer-modern-gop-as-corporate-class-fades%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1274473&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The \u201cmodern Republican\u201d Party is scrapping its old-guard corporate ties and business special interests, an Axios report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/modern-republican-party-primary-trump-gop-d445dd51-adfc-469e-b1dd-5d6b25118bc7.html?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&amp;stream=top\">details<\/a>, as Breitbart News and small-dollar donors to former President Trump steer the party\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen of the top GOP consultants and operatives detail how the Republican Party has shifted away from the Chamber of Commerce, the Koch brothers\u2019 network of donor class organizations, <em>National Review<\/em>, and economic libertarian groups toward Trump\u2019s small-dollar donors, populist-nationalist outlets like Breitbart News, and Tucker Carlson.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>These days, it is Trump\u2019s voters, Breitbart News readers, and Carlson viewers that Republicans hope to win over in elections rather than seeking out corporate campaign contributions through endorsements from the Heritage Foundation, FreedomWorks, and the Senate Conservatives Fund.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t want Breitbart on your ass,\u201d a GOP operative told Axios.<\/p>\n<p>J.D. Vance, the<em> New York Times<\/em> best-selling author now running for Senate in Ohio, said the party\u2019s shift comes as beltway conservative orthodoxy has been busted through by the likes of Trump, Breitbart News, and Carlson.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe all owe Donald Trump a great deal for singlehandedly destroying the corrupt globalist and corporatist orthodoxies that previously defined the Republican Party, in favor of a new Republican Party, that is pro-worker and always puts America first,\u201d Vance told Breitbart News.<\/p>\n<p>That shift seeks to increasingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/12\/07\/analysis-gop-voters-remain-economic-populists-cultural-conservatives\/\">align<\/a>&nbsp;Republican lawmakers and those running for office with the nation\u2019s largest voting bloc: economic populists who are socially conservative.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18234466\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2020-electorate.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18234466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2020-electorate.png\" alt=\"(Chart via Navigator Research)\" width=\"712\" height=\"682\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>(Chart via Navigator Research)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Republican Party\u2019s connections to the Chamber, while financially still tied, have faded dramatically in recent election years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the U.S. Chamber of Commerce calls you and says \u2018We want to endorse,\u2019 You\u2019re like, \u2018Please don\u2019t,&#8217;\u201d a high-profile GOP political consultant told Axios. Most recently, the Chamber urged President Joe Biden and Congress to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/11\/chamber-of-commerce-ceo-flood-u-s-with-twice-as-much-legal-immigration-amnesty-for-illegal-aliens\/\">double<\/a> legal immigration levels and provide amnesty to the nation\u2019s 11 to 22 million illegal aliens.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Last year, the Chamber\u2019s political action committee (PAC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/disbursements\/?data_type=processed&amp;committee_id=C00082040&amp;committee_id=C90013145&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2022\">donated<\/a> thousands to Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Todd Young (R-IN), John Thune (R-SD), and Mike Lee (R-UT), as well as to Reps. Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Ashley Hinson (R-IA), Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), Maria Salazar (R-FL), and Don Bacon (R-NE), among others.<\/p>\n<p>The same goes for the Koch network.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Whereas Republicans once vied for campaign cash from the Kochs, major backers of mass <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/17\/koch-network-joins-biden-obama-bush-clinton-to-resettle-afghans-across-u-s\/\">immigration<\/a> and job-killing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/06\/09\/billionaire-kochs-to-financially-back-democrats-pushing-amnesty-free-trade\/\">free trade<\/a>, candidates try to steer clear of the network while running against open borders and in support of industrial policy to reshore America\u2019s manufacturing base.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 none of the operatives we interviewed considered Koch support to be important in 2022,\u201d the Axios report notes.<\/p>\n<p>For the 2022 midterms, nearly 100 Republican lawmakers have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/political-action-committees-pacs\/koch-industries\/C00236489\/candidate-recipients\/2022\">accepted<\/a> donations from the Koch Industries PAC, including Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY), Jeff Duncan (R-SC), Don Bacon (R-NE), Tony Gonzalez (R-TX), Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), Ashley Hinson (R-IA), Julia Letlow (R-LA), Jackie Walorski (R-IN), Garret Graves (R-LA), Jim Banks (R-IN), Byron Donalds (R-FL), Yvette Herrell (R-NM), and Jim Jordan (R-OH), among others.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>A new wave of Republicans, though, are fiercely breaking all ties with the old guard.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew McCarthy, running in New York\u2019s 24th congressional district, told Breitbart News that he, Joe Kent, running in Washington\u2019s 3rd congressional district, and Anthony Sabatini, running in Florida\u2019s 7th congressional district, are just a handful of some of the new blood campaigning to offer voters an \u201cAmerica First approach to policy\u201d with teeth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re getting policy that is untainted and untouched by these beltway, second-tier groups,\u201d McCarthy said. The shift, he said, can be seen in endorsements that long-established groups like the Club for Growth have recently made.<\/p>\n<p>In Alabama, the Club for Growth is backing Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) \u2014 an avid opponent of mass immigration \u2014 for Senate. In Arizona, the organization just endorsed Blake Masters for Senate. Masters\u2019 central issue is advocating for domestic economic policy that ensures working- and middle-class Americans can support their families on a single income.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Witt, running in Georgia\u2019s 10th congressional district, told Breitbart News that the shift is a \u201crecognition that beltway conservatives hide behind free market ideology while supporting anti-free market practices.\u201d&nbsp;Big Tech, Witt said, is just one example.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose are not free markets. Those are monopolies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the campaign trail, Witt said Republican primary voters are not interested in endorsements from beltway think tanks. Voters, he said, want fighters for their economic and social interests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Republican Party needs a big wake-up call if they think big business is their friend,\u201d Witt said. \u201cIt is often an enemy of social conservatism. The wake-up call is long overdue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Congress, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has embodied the shift. He is currently trying to get conservative lawmakers on board with plans to break up giant tech conglomerates with vigorous antitrust enforcement.&nbsp;Last month, Hawley&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/13\/josh-hawley-plan-bans-congress-from-trading-stocks-stop-turning-blind-eye-to-washington-profiteering\/\">introduced<\/a> a bill&nbsp;to ban members of Congress from trading stocks.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) made headlines in 2020 when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/02\/27\/matt-gaetz-makes-no-pac-pledge-the-american-people-are-my-one-and-only-special-interest\/\">vowed<\/a> never to take donations from corporate-funded PACs. Hawley and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) have since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/andrewsolender\/2021\/04\/29\/cruz-hawley-swear-off-corporate-pac-money-amid-deepening-gop-rift-with-business\/?sh=188dcbc34f2f\">followed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The shift is not just occurring in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>At the state level, Republican legislators and governors are charting a similar course. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), for instance, has laid out an ambitious legislative agenda that includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/11\/ron-desantis-agenda-blacklist-companies-facilitating-illegal-immigration-to-florida\/\">blacklisting <\/a>companies from receiving state licenses if they are found to facilitate illegal immigration.<\/p>\n<p>In West Virginia last year, Delegate Riley Keaton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/07\/15\/west-virginia-legislators-joe-manchin-must-oppose-amnesty-deal-to-prioritize-american-workers-over-corporations\/\">led<\/a> a group of the state\u2019s House delegates in demanding Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) oppose immigration provisions included in Biden\u2019s Build Back Better Act.<\/p>\n<p>Their focus: Mass immigration boosts corporate profits at the expense of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmnesty for illegal immigrants redistributes wealth from working class Americans through increased economic competition,\u201d they wrote. \u201cAcademic research has found, time and again, that immigration, especially illegal immigration, has a direct, negative impact on the Americans we should be trying to help get ahead \u2014 the working class.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JxhnBxnder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cmodern Republican\u201d Party is scrapping its old-guard corporate ties and business special interests, an Axios report details, as Breitbart News and small-dollar donors to former President Trump steer the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}