In his bid to retake the White House, few states hold as much promise for Donald Trump as Michigan.
The former president has already won the state once and President Joe Biden, who reclaimed it for Democrats in 2020, is confronting vulnerabilities there as he seeks reelection. Trump’s campaign promises an aggressive play for Michigan as part of a robust swing-state strategy.
But, at least for now, those promises appear to be mostly talk. The Trump campaign and its partners at the Republican National Committee haven’t yet made significant general election investments in the state, according to Michigan Republican Party Chairman Pete Hoekstra. The national committee, he said, hasn’t transferred any money to the state party to help bolster its operations heading into the general election. There are no specific programs in place to court voters of color. And there’s no general election field staff in place.
Good.
The RNC is dumping so much money on Trumps legal fees and expenses, that running an actual campaign becomes more and more impossible.
I dont remember the source right now, but I read that large parts of the RNC at the state-level are already practically bankrupt. If thats true, then we might have an even weaker GOP in the comming years.
Turns out if everyone is just grifting, you cant build anything in the long run. I hope their efforts are crippled for a very long time. At best they never recover.
If Project 2025 comes to pass and they have sweeping powers they’ll find a way to siphon federal money into the RNC
It won’t be hard when all oversight is gutted or populated with members of Trump’s Mafia. Once they have enough control they can ensure they always win future elections. Sort of like Putin does.
I remember those reports, the media buried them because they greatly prefer the appearance of a close contest. The GOP is turbo fucked.
Michigan is bankrupt and needs RNC to support them. They’ve also experienced a lot of internal turmoil, which is a horrible combination. Considering the 2 percent margin that Biden won MI by, RNC needs to be completely on top of their game in MI to flip it. That or for Biden to make a huge error.
Like supporting Israel’s genocide of Palestinians when there’s a substantial Palestinian and Arab population in Michigan?
Supporting Israel is definitely Biden’s biggest and ongoing political mistake so far, but we have yet to see whether its actually a huge error. I’m hoping Biden turns around his decision sooner rather than later because too many people are suffering, and things will get worse in the US if Trump wins as I bet a huge reason may be because of Israel.
Which is crazy, because the alternative is a guy who fully supports Bibi and loves to see brown people suffer