{"id":204496,"date":"2021-03-09T14:16:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T19:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=204496"},"modified":"2021-03-09T14:16:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T19:16:36","slug":"josh-hawley-becomes-gop-cash-cow-despite-dem-targeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/josh-hawley-becomes-gop-cash-cow-despite-dem-targeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hawley Becomes \u2018GOP Cash Cow\u2019 Despite Dem Targeting"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fjosh-hawley-becomes-gop-cash-cow-despite-dem-targeting%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=204496&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Josh-Hawley-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley has become a \u201cGOP cash cow\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/hawley-gop-cash-cost-insurrection-aabd9f44-5017-4350-9873-2d0aa7f282de.html\">according to Axios<\/a>, pulling in millions for his own re-election and for the Republican Party at large, after being targeted by Democrats for objecting to a vote certifying the results of the Electoral College.<\/p>\n<p>Hawley has faced intense criticism for siding with President Donald Trump and suggesting that certain states\u2019 electoral results may be tainted by widespread vote fraud. He was among a handful of Senators who voiced opposition to certifying select states\u2019 electors on January 6th, the same day a rally on Trump\u2019s behalf descended into chaos and, eventually, a riot and attack on the United States Capitol that left five dead and dozens injured.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats made an effort to tie Hawley to those rioters, but while that project had been unsuccessful \u2014 for Democrats \u2014 it has been heavily productive for Hawley, who drew in millions in the first quarter of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSen. Josh Hawley\u2019s effort to block certification of the 2020 election has been a fundraising boon \u2014 not just for him but his party,\u201d according to Axios.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCorporate donors and establishment Republicans recoiled at the Jan. 6 siege on the Capitol that followed efforts by Hawley and others to block President Biden\u2019s Electoral College victory. But fundraising numbers show the GOP grassroots is still firmly in Hawley\u2019s camp,\u201d the outlet said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Hawley is the National Republican Senatorial Committee\u2019s best fundraiser, next to the group\u2019s president, making him an indispensable resource for the group, which bankrolls GOP senate campaigns across the country. Overall, the NRSC pulled in more than $8 million, easily beating the Democrat senate fundraising arm, per Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>On his own, Hawley pulled in $1.5 million for his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Axios notes that that is far and away Hawley\u2019s best haul: \u201cThat\u2019s more than 12 times what Hawley raised during the first quarter of 2020, and more than 34 times what he brought in during the first quarter of 2019 \u2014 and there\u2019s still more than three weeks left in the current quarter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Axios notes that the money is evidence that, despite losing some corporate PAC donors, largely at the behest of Democrats and progressive activists, in the days and weeks following the January 6th Capitol riot, the GOP\u2019s fundraising hasn\u2019t taken much of a hit, thanks to grassroots contributions.<\/p>\n<p>Fundraising actually appears to be pretty steady for Republicans overall.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wenatcheeworld.com\/news\/republican-donations-surge-despite-corporate-boycott-after-capitol-riots\/article_d955a6c1-4e0c-567f-a244-ff7d6a0ce7e0.html\">Reuters review of around 50 corporate<\/a> PACs \u201cfound that the political action committees (PACs) gave about $5 million to the [Republican] lawmakers during the 2019-2020 election cycle \u2014 or only about 1% of the money the lawmakers raised, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) disclosures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy comparison, Republican fundraising operations supporting Senate and House candidates raked in a combined $15.8 million in January alone on the strength of small-dollar donations. These groups outraised their Democratic counterparts by more than $2 million that month,\u201d Reuters notes.<\/p>\n<p>The news only gets better for the GOP. Reuters adds that, after speaking with around 100 corporations, the Chamber of Commerce, which was one of the first organizations to pull funding, says its reconsidering its freeze-out.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley has become a \u201cGOP cash cow\u201d according to Axios, pulling in millions for his own re-election and for the Republican Party at large, after being &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310369,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Josh-Hawley-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Josh Hawley Becomes \u2018GOP Cash Cow\u2019 Despite Dem Targeting","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Josh-Hawley-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Josh Hawley Becomes \u2018GOP Cash Cow\u2019 Despite Dem Targeting","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204496","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=204496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}