{"id":1637206,"date":"2022-09-08T20:08:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T00:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1637206"},"modified":"2022-09-08T20:19:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T00:19:13","slug":"rick-scott-stands-by-handling-of-nrsc-in-memo-to-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rick-scott-stands-by-handling-of-nrsc-in-memo-to-donors\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Scott stands by handling of NRSC in memo to donors"},"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\">22<\/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%2Frick-scott-stands-by-handling-of-nrsc-in-memo-to-donors%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=1637206&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/08201830\/90-129\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">N<\/span>ational Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Rick Scott (R-FL) is <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/rick-scott-defends-nrsc-amid-dwindling-war-chest\">standing by<\/a> his handling of the Senate GOP\u2019s campaign arm, taking thinly veiled swipes at some of his Republican colleagues in a new memo sent to donors. <\/p>\n<p>The memo comes as <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/09\/06\/politics\/rick-scott-mitch-mcconnell-republican-senate-fundraising\/index.html\">multiple Republicans<\/a> raise concerns over the NRSC\u2019s cash shortfall and question Scott\u2019s leadership ahead of the midterm elections. <\/p>\n<p>In the memo, Scott argued that Republicans are well positioned to retake the majority and called those \u201canonymous sources\u201d attacking his stewardship of the NRSC traitorous \u201cto our cause.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs is predictable for this time of year, the vultures in the left-wing news media \u2014 The Washington Post, NY Times, CNN and the like \u2014 are roaming about trying to divide and defeat Republicans. As always, they are being aided by the typical Washington \u2018anonymous sources\u2019 whose cowardice is only exceeded by their ignorance,\u201d he wrote. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/rick-scott-defends-nrsc-amid-dwindling-war-chest\">\u2018WE SPENT EARLY\u2019: RICK SCOTT DEFENDS NRSC AS GOP FRETS OVER DWINDLING WAR CHEST<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact is that Republicans are on the verge of taking over both the Senate and the House, and the left is panicking,&#8221; he added. &#8220;As I\u2019ve said, any so-called Republican who aids and abets the enemy is in fact trying to defeat Republican candidates and is a traitor to our cause. But these small people will not win.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Scott went on to argue that his strategy of spending early has positioned candidates to win in November. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepublican candidates and our party are in a better position now than we were three months ago. Here are the facts: Spending early is a feature, not a bug. And, it\u2019s working,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to providing our candidates with polling, data, assistance to win the Hispanic vote and many other services, the NRSC spent over $45 million dollars in advertising prior to Labor Day,&#8221; Scott added. &#8220;This is crucial to taking the majority, and it is working, with all our candidates in the hunt. None were left for dead, and every Democrat we are targeting is under 50 percent in polling today.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The questions over Scott&#8217;s leadership come as he feuds with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), a rift that emerged earlier this year over a controversial 11-point blueprint for a Republican majority next year Scott released that McConnell publicly rebuked. <\/p>\n<p>The infighting over midterm strategy resurfaced in recent weeks after McConnell raised concerns about &#8220;candidate quality&#8221; as Republicans struggle in certain states, including Georgia and Pennsylvania. Scott has pushed back on the sentiment. <\/p>\n<p>In the memo, Scott argued that following contentious primaries, the NRSC moved to help candidates gain traction as they were down in the polls. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Outside groups that typically wait to significantly invest in races until after Labor Day seldom help these candidates when they are down in the polls. Many of our candidates finished bruising primaries with no money in the bank,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe NRSC helped our candidates with early ads, and we\u2019re proud that nearly every candidate ad that was on the air this summer had assistance from the NRSC. We will continue to do this through election day.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Scott went on to take aim indirectly at former NRSC Chairman Todd Young\u2019s strategy while leading the Senate GOP\u2019s campaign arm last cycle, saying Republicans should have done more to counter candidate attacks. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Republicans lost the Senate last cycle, our candidates were defined by the onslaught of attack ads from Schumer\u2019s dark money groups, with little early response from our side. For example, in 2020, Raphael Warnock made it all the way to election day without getting attacked. He entered the runoff in great shape and never looked back. As a result, we lost Georgia and the Senate was lost,\u201d he wrote. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI refuse to repeat a losing strategy,&#8221; Scott added. &#8220;This spring and summer, we made sure the people of Georgia learned that Warnock is a puppet of Joe Biden and his failed policies. And unlike 2020, Warnock\u2019s approval ratings have drastically dropped this year, because we have advertised. Herschel Walker will defeat him in two months, and then Senator Walker will suddenly be deemed by official Washington as a great candidate, and the lobbyists will say \u2018I was secretly for him the whole time.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Scott then defended his decision to expand investments in digital fundraising despite some within the party arguing it has fallen short of expectations and sounding the alarm that the NRSC had just $23.2 million on hand in August, significantly less than what the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee had in its war chest. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats have consistently outraised Republicans in digital fundraising. This had to change \u2014 and the only way to change it was to make early investments to get new donors, which we did and it worked,\u201d he said. \u201cWe made big investments in digital fundraising while already netting over $11 million. More importantly, we tripled the size of our house file \u2014 from 3 million to over 9 million!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Scott added he felt the committee needed \u201cto break some china\u201d and revamp its strategy to compete with Democrats and has no regrets over not dabbling in primaries or invoking former President Donald Trump\u2019s name while working to fundraise online. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe removed vendors who had a monopoly control in digital fundraising at the NRSC, which also owned the NRSC\u2019s data and infrastructure. I completely dismissed that model. We opened our digital fundraising up to competition and now use over 40 vendors today,\u201d he continued. \u201cDisgruntled former vendors and \u2018anonymous sources\u2019 will just have to deal with that.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am unfazed by the Washington griping and pressing on to victory this fall. Contrary to what some in Washington believe, this is not a game, it is a battle for the future of our country. And doing things the same way will not get you a different result,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need a different result this time \u2014 we need a Republican majority in the Senate and House or else we will continue to get more federal debt, trillion-dollar deficits, open borders, a woke military and rampant crime. Things must change. Thank you for all you do \u2014 please donate more if you can \u2014 on to victory!\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Rick Scott (R-FL) is standing by his handling of the Senate GOP\u2019s campaign arm, taking thinly veiled swipes at some of his Republican colleagues in a new memo sent to donors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1637208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1637206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637206","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=1637206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1637208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}