Trump is Literally Decimating the GOP

We know how paltry his own fundraising efforts are proving to be.

http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/06/trumps-campaign-is-not-self-funded-so.html

But he's not the only victim. That''s been the problem all along for the GOP. His very candidacy has tarnished every GOPer running for office in the country.

Now his failure to raise money is also hurting the RNC-and so potentially, the Senate and Congressional GOP races.

"Trump won't have the Republican National Committee to fall back on either. The RNC collected $11 million in May — $3 million of which came from a joint fundraising account with Trump. The committee ended the month with $20 million in the bank but $7 million in debt. If Trump can't raise lots more money — both for himself and into the RNC — it's possible that coordinated campaigns aimed at helping GOP candidates up and down the ballot may not be fully funded."

"That creeping reality will set off a new round of worries about Trump's candidacy and whether he might not only lose the White House but also cost Republicans their Senate majority and maybe even their House one too. Especially since Trump has pledged not to self-fund his campaign in the general election, meaning that he need to not only start raising vastly larger sums of money but also do it very, very soon."

"If fundraising is, at its root, a test of whether you can get people to vote for you with their checkbooks, Trump failed in May. And he failed with every possible advantage working for him: Momentum, decent-to-good polling and, at least for part of the month, a Republican party that seemed willing to unify behind him."

"Trump may not need to raise as much money as Clinton to win. But he can't have another month where he is outraised by her at a nine to one clip. If he does, the general election may be over before it ever really started."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/06/20/donald-trumps-may-fundraising-totals-are-stunningly-bad/

"Cillizza also notes that Corey Lewandowski might seem gracious in light of being escorted out of Trump Tower-literally a security guard saw him out-but he seemed to be just like his boss he loves: completely out of touch with reality."

"Trump's paltry fundraising last month is totally inexplicable given that he effectively secured the Republican presidential nomination on May 3 when he crushed Texas. Sen. Ted Cruz in the Indiana primary. Cruz ended his campaign that night. Ohio Gov. John Kasich dropped out the next day.

"It also runs directly counter to assertions made Monday by Trump's now-deposed campaign manager Corey Lewandowski who repeatedly insisted that "money is pouring in" to Trump's coffers. (It's possible Lewandowski was referring to Trump's June fundraising. But if Trump did so poorly in May why would he suddenly improve in June amid a series of self-inflicted campaign wounds that have made it impossible for him to find a message much less stay on it?)"

For his part, Lewandowski is the scapegoat. After all, like Paul Waldman says, Trump can't fire himself.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/06/20/unable-to-fire-the-man-responsible-for-his-campaigns-problems-trump-boots-ineffectual-underling-instead/

As the Democrats point out, Trump not Lewandowski is the main problem:

Donald Trump may have fired campaign manager Corey Lewandowski on Monday, but the Democratic National Committee suggested that the presumptive Republican nominee need only look in the mirror to find the person most responsible for his problems.

“Corey Lewandowski is not the problem, it’s Donald Trump," national press secretary Mark Paustenbach said in a statement, noting in particular the candidate's call to temporarily ban Muslims from the country and his comments pertaining to a judge presiding over his Trump University lawsuits. "It wasn’t Corey Lewandowski who called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States, it was Donald Trump. It wasn’t Corey Lewandowski who disparaged a federal judge born in Indiana because his parents were ‘Mexican’, it was Donald Trump."

"News of Lewandowski's firing "does nothing to make up for Trump’s divisive and racist comments and policies," Paustenbach concluded. "It does reinforce, however, that there’s no one Trump won’t throw overboard for his own personal benefit, just as he’s done his entire life.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/dnc-trump-lewandowski-224545#ixzz4CDfEf8nl