{"id":1730887,"date":"2022-11-08T23:33:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T04:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1730887"},"modified":"2022-11-08T23:33:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T04:33:22","slug":"dems-blow-nearly-200-million-on-perennial-losers-beto-orourke-stacey-abrams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-blow-nearly-200-million-on-perennial-losers-beto-orourke-stacey-abrams\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Blow Nearly $200 Million on Perennial Losers Beto O\u2019Rourke, Stacey Abrams"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fdems-blow-nearly-200-million-on-perennial-losers-beto-orourke-stacey-abrams%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=1730887&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 dir=\"ltr\">Democrats spent nearly $200 million on perennial losers Beto O&#8217;Rourke and Stacey Abrams\u2014money that failed to make their gubernatorial races against Republican incumbents competitive.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Abrams, who trailed Georgia governor Brian Kemp (R.) by 9 points with 72 percent of the vote reported Tuesday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/record-fundraising-in-georgia-governors-race-nears-170m\/2022\/11\/02\/9495ae06-5af5-11ed-bc40-b5a130f95ee7_story.html\">raised<\/a> nearly $100 million between her campaign and leadership committee, state filings show. O\u2019Rourke, meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/2022\/11\/07\/abbott-tops-beto-in-money-chase-in-closing-week-of-texas-governors-race\/\">raised<\/a> $77 million and spent $72 million as of October 29\u2014he trailed Texas governor Greg Abbott (R.) by more than 10 points with 60 percent of the vote reported. O&#8217;Rourke even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/15\/us\/politics\/beto-orourke-fundraising.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/15\/us\/politics\/beto-orourke-fundraising.html&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1668026353112000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2SAWmQxxf6_06gOmUsXgjH\">broke Texas\u2019s four-month fundraising record<\/a> in July, when he raised $28 million.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Abrams&#8217;s and O\u2019Rourke\u2019s eye-popping fundraising hauls came despite their status as high-profile losers. Abrams lost to Kemp by roughly 1.5 points in 2018, a loss she refused to concede and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/09\/29\/stacey-abramss-rhetorical-twist-being-an-election-denier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/09\/29\/stacey-abramss-rhetorical-twist-being-an-election-denier\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1668026353112000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0VuHDvLWT_xaLb73HoY-AW\">portrayed<\/a> as &#8220;stolen&#8221; and &#8220;rigged.&#8221; O\u2019Rourke, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2019\/03\/beto-orourke-cover-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2019\/03\/beto-orourke-cover-story&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1668026353112000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0a-bRxJHzjdCg__eqGiF6W\">said<\/a> he was &#8220;just born to be in&#8221; politics, similarly lost to Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) by 2 points in 2018. O\u2019Rourke raised $80 million in that race, which was at the time the highest amount ever raised for a U.S. Senate campaign. O\u2019Rourke went on to run for president, a campaign he ended in November 2019 after polling in the low single digits. During his short-lived presidential bid, O\u2019Rourke said he could not &#8220;fathom a scenario&#8221; where he would run for office again if he did not become the Democratic nominee.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Abrams and O\u2019Rourke are far from the only Democrats who raked in money in races they lost handily. Congresswoman Val Demings\u2019s (D.) 16-point loss to Florida senator Marco Rubio (R.) cost nearly $70 million, and\u00a0only three House Democrats raised more than Georgia&#8217;s Marcus Flowers, who raked in more than $15 million only to lose to Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene by a whopping 33 points.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">All of that money could have been useful in states such as North Carolina, where Republican Ted Budd leads Democrat Cheri Beasley by just 4 points just before 11 p.m. Tuesday in a Senate race national liberals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/10\/04\/dems-north-carolina-senate-spending-00060109\">chose not to prioritize<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Democrats have long blown huge amounts of money on perpetual losers in longshot campaigns. Amy McGrath, for example, spent $90 million on her nearly 20-point loss to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) in 2020, which came two years after she failed to unseat Republican congressman Andy Barr. The 2020 election cycle also saw Jaime Harrison raise $109 million in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats spent nearly $200 million on perennial losers Beto O&#8217;Rourke and Stacey Abrams\u2014money that failed to make their gubernatorial races against Republican incumbents competitive. Abrams, who trailed Georgia governor Brian Kemp (R.) by 9 points with 72 percent of the vote reported Tuesday night, raised nearly $100 million between her campaign and leadership committee, state [\u2026]<br \/>\nThe post Dems Blow Nearly $200 Million on Perennial Losers Beto O\u2019Rourke, Stacey Abrams appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":1730890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1730887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730887","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1730890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}