{"id":1734276,"date":"2022-11-10T18:32:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T23:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1734276"},"modified":"2022-11-10T18:32:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T23:32:51","slug":"trump-has-spent-more-money-opposing-georgia-republicans-than-he-has-supporting-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-has-spent-more-money-opposing-georgia-republicans-than-he-has-supporting-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Has Spent More Money Opposing Georgia Republicans Than He Has Supporting Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Ftrump-has-spent-more-money-opposing-georgia-republicans-than-he-has-supporting-them%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=1734276&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>As Senate control could come down to a Georgia runoff race for the second time in two years, it\u2019s also the second time in two years where former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/desantis-should-be-welcomed-trump-press-sec-wont-say-her-ex-boss-should-help-with-georgia-run-off\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Trump<\/a> may do more to harm Republicans\u2019 chances of success there than he has done to help them.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s Super PAC spent $3.4 million backing Herschel Walker in the general election that culminated Tuesday in neither Walker nor incumbent Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock topping 50% of the vote, necessitating a December 6 runoff. While Trump\u2019s endorsement helped the former NFL great secure the Republican nomination, the spending \u00a0amounted to less than 5% of the $72 million that outside groups spent helping Walker in the general election, according to a Daily Wire analysis of Federal Election Commission records.<\/p>\n<p>Super PACs like Trump\u2019s\u00a0Make America Great Again Inc. can spend unlimited funds independently supporting a candidate or cause, as opposed to PACs, like Trump\u2019s Save America, which dole donations out directly to candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Walker, whose campaign raised $38 million, could have used more outside help, especially given that Warnock raised $123 million, according to FEC data running through October 19.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the two have to square off again in what\u00a0is likely to be one of the most expensive runoff elections in history, Democrats have begun <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/elections\/democrats-sending-7-million-georgia-bolster-senate-runoff-next-month?utm_source=sf&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=twjtn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moving millions<\/a>\u00a0into the state to back Warnock. Trump\u2019s Save America PAC had nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/committee\/C00762591\/?tab=summary\">$70 million<\/a> in the bank as of October 19. By law, it could move any or all of that money into Super PACs to spend on Walker\u2019s runoff campaign. A spokesman for Trump\u2019s political organizations declined to say whether the former president would spend money helping Walker in a race that could break the 50-50 Senate deadlock.<\/p>\n<p>Trump showed a willingness to spend more freely in Georgia when it came to opposing certain Republicans. Save America\u2019s largest candidate-related expenditures were in the Peach State, including $4.4 million spent on groups that opposed Republican Gov. Brian Kemp in the primary. That money was ultimately wasted as Kemp prevailed and went on to easily win re-election with 53.4% of the vote \u2013 5% more than Walker, his fellow Republican on the same ticket.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2021, Trump endorsed Walker, a former NFL and University of Georgia star who had appeared on Trump\u2019s TV show Celebrity Apprentice. That set off a primary fight between Walker and others, including a more established political player, Agricultural Commissioner Gary Black. A spokesman for the Georgia Democrats rejoiced at the time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/09\/02\/politics\/donald-trump-herschel-walker-endorsement-georgia-senate\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying<\/a> Trump putting his weight behind Walker, who was dogged by allegations of threatening women with domestic violence, \u201ccements the nightmare scenario that Republican leaders in Georgia and Washington have wanted to avoid. This is going to be a long, divisive, and expensive intra-party fight focused on political loyalty tests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The runoff situation is d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu. Democrats control the Senate now because in 2021, two Georgia Senate races went to runoffs, and Republicans lost both.<\/p>\n<p>Both of the state\u2019s Senate seats were on the ballot January 5, 2021, with one of them a special election to finish the final two years of the term of Republican Johnny Isakson, who retired. Republicans took the most votes in the initial election for both seats: Republican Sen. David Perdue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/election\/2020\/results\/state\/georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bested<\/a> Democrat John Ossoff, 49.7% to 47.9%. In the special election in which Warnock ran against Kelly Loeffler, four candidates were on the ballot, and Republicans got 45.9% to Democrats\u2019 35.7%.<\/p>\n<p>But because no candidate got 50%, both headed to runoffs.<\/p>\n<p>And then came Trump.<\/p>\n<p>After Trump lost the 2020 presidential election in part due to losing Georgia, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-kemp-call-georgia\/2020\/12\/05\/fd8d677c-3721-11eb-8d38-6aea1adb3839_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pressured<\/a>\u00a0Kemp to order an audit of signatures on mail-in ballots, something Kemp said he had no power to do. That left Trump incensed at the governor. Lin Wood, a lawyer who had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/12\/02\/records-lin-wood-decades-voted-donated-democrats-including-barack-obama-david-perdues-2014-opponent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">donated to Georgia Democrats<\/a> and not voted in the Republican primary, took up Trump\u2019s claim that his loss in the state was the result of a rigged election, donning a MAGA cap and holding rallies at which he encouraged Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/pro-trump-georgia-rally-lawyer-lin-wood-says-dont-vote-gop-senators-rigged-runoffs-theyve-1551927\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not to vote<\/a> in the Senate runoffs. The result was a Democrat sweep.<\/p>\n<p>Trump himself did not tell supporters not to vote, instead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2020-election\/trump-tells-supporters-vote-georgia-runoffs-refuses-accept-reality-his-n1250128\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying<\/a>, \u201cWe have to do just the opposite.\u201d But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/trump-admits-didnt-push-republicans-140000810.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Examiner<\/a> reporter David Drucker later asked Trump what might have happened if Trump had said \u201cdespite some irregularities that deserved looking into, the state\u2019s voting system was reliable\u201d and urged supporters to vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI did say a version of that, but not as strongly as you said, because I was very angry with what happened there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump supporters emphasize that money aside, he also holds rallies with candidates at his side, which can help convince people who are conservative but might otherwise sit out election day to vote.<\/p>\n<p>But precedent suggests that in Georgia, an association with Trump may do more to harm Republicans than help them. In addition to Kemp\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump spent $3.4 million supporting his endorsed candidate Herschel Walker\u2013amounting to less than 5% of Walker\u2019s total outside funding in a race where he was dramatically outspent\u2013even as he spent more freely, at $4.4 million, giving to groups seeking to unseat Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":1734279,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1734276","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\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1734279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}