NRCC Weekly Rundown: Dems panic as socialist Sanders emerges as frontrunner
Here’s this week’s
edition of the NRCC Weekly Rundown:
(National) Democrats are in an all-out panic after Bernie Sanders’ victory
in New Hampshire with Democrat Rep. Scott PeterspredictingSanders’ nomination could
put the “House majority at risk.” One anonymous front-line
Democrat even told The New York Times, ““There is a growing
concern among especially those of us on the front lines that we will not only
lose the White House but the House of Representatives.” Yikes!
Unfortunately for House Dems it looks like the damage has already been done. Good luck defending that socialist agenda!
(National) House Democrats took to social media this week to whine about
President Trump’s budget. Meanwhile, they refuse to PROPOSE a budget of their own
for the second year in a row. Maybe House Dems should
brush up on Article I, Section 7, Clause 1 of the
Constitution, which states: “All bills for raising revenue shall
originate in the House of Representatives.” If Nancy Pelosi and
her socialist cohorts are so distraught over the president’s budget,
they should stop complaining and get to work on a proposal of their own.
(National) The DCCC got caught with their blinds up last night
discussing ways to rig Democrat primaries across the country. Talk about
democracy at its finest! Click HERE to read more.
(California) SoCal socialists Josh Harder, T.J. Cox, Gil Cisneros, Katie Porter, Harley Rouda and Mike Levin all voted last Friday in
support of the PRO Act, legislation that severely harms freelancing workers in the gig
economy.
The bill’s language is eerily similar to California’s Assembly Bill 5, a newly
implemented yet unpopular law that restricts the amount of freelance work
independent contractors can perform. Why would California Democrats vote for a
bill they know is extremely unpopular in their home state? Because Labor PACs
shell out big money for them all!
(CA-21) In a party line vote this week, T.J. Cox chose to support
Raul Grijalva, the socialist chair of the Natural
Resources Committee, instead of strengthening the Central Valley’s water
supply. Cox voted to give Grijalva unlimited subpoena power to baselessly harass five
different agencies within the Trump Administration, including the
Department of Interior, which under the Trump Administration has helped strengthen the Central Valley’s water supply.
So much for Cox being that “independent voice” for the Central Valley…
(CA-48) In case you missed it, Harley Rouda was one of the first
members of Congress to endorse Mike Bloomberg for president. It’s
important to note that Rouda endorsed Bloomberg AFTER his dark
money group spent millions of dollars in California to help him get elected. I
guess Orange County voters can’t trust Rouda to act in their best
interest when he’s willing to sell his vote to the highest bidder…
(GA-06) Voters aren’t happy with Lyin’ Lucy McBath, who this week
endorsedMichael Bloomberg for
president despite his controversial comments on policing and race. And it’s easy
to see why! Lucy worked for Bloomberg’sDARK money group and he spent over $4.5M to get her elected. Even the New
York Times is calling McBath out for being bought off by Bloomberg. In fact, Lucy
was just hit with an ethics complaint connected to the money she
received from Bloomberg’s group. Allegedly Lucy received money
from the group WHILE she was still serving as their national spokesperson.
Yikes!
(IA-03) Cindy Axne is taking credit for the Trump
Administrationawarding her district with a $100,000 USDA
grant to finance new equipment for volunteer fire fighters. It should be noted
that instead of working with President Trump on issues voters actually
care about, Axne voted to impeach and remove him from
office. Axne knows her embrace of impeachment and her party’s socialist
agenda is toxic in Iowa, which is why she’s desperately doing damage control by
gaslighting voters with a ridiculous column in the Des Moines Register.
With the president’s approval rating at an all-time high, Iowa voters are surely going to
see right through Axne’s partisan stunts!
(NE-02) Comrade Kara Eastman is taking issue with a new report on her financial mismanagement of the Omaha Healthy
Kids Alliance, saying it had “no factual
substantiation.” Unfortunately for Comrade Kara, the nonprofit’s
financial statements are public record. And those documents show that
while Comrade Kara was running up massive deficits, her compensation
soared from $25,000 when she was first hired in 2007 to $129,000 when she left
in 2017. Click HERE to read the financials for yourself.
(P.S. That’s not the only issue Comrade Kara has with money. Now she’s
taking cash from a raging anti-Semite!)
(NM-02) Back in October, Xochitl Torres Small joined Republicans
in voting to prohibit future presidents from
unilaterally banning fracking. Torres Small must have gotten words from Nancy
Pelosi, because this week she voted against an identical measure, joining her socialist
colleagues in defeating the Republican effort. Guess it’s clear Torres Small
takes her marching orders from Pelosi, not the
New Mexico families employed by the oil and gas industry!
(NY-22) Pretend moderate Anthony Brindisi announced
he will not support the presidential
campaigns of Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, suggesting both
are too divisive and that it’d be “exceedingly difficult” for either to win in
November. That’s quite a flip from 2016 when Brindisi was rocking Bernie socks and thanking him for
bringing the country together. Why the sudden change of heart? HINT: Brindisi
knows his support for his party’s radical
socialist agenda is toxic in a district President Trump won by 15.5
points!
(NY-24) At a town hall last weekend, socialist Democrat Roger
Misso admitted he’s “committed” to bringing Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez’sGreen New Deal to Central
New York. So the question is, when will fellow socialists Dana Balter
and Francis Conole join Misso in supporting AOC’s radical
$93 trillion Green New Deal? With Dem primary voters focused on who’s more progressive, it shouldn’t be
too much longer…
(NY-27) Deranged
Socialist Loser Nate McMurray had quite the week trying to erase his assassination threat against a
government official and going on bizarre Twitter tirades about everything
from Harry Potter to pie crust. Someone should
check-in with him to make sure he’s okay. It seems like he’s struggling to come
to terms with who he really is!
(OK-05) Back in October,
Kendra Horn joined Republicans in voting to prohibit future
presidents from unilaterally banning fracking. She must have been scolded by Nancy
Pelosi, because this week she voted against an identical measure, joining her
socialist colleagues in defeating the Republican effort. Guess it’s clear Horn
takes her marching orders from Pelosi, not the Oklahoma families employed by the oil and gas industry.
(PA-08, PA-17) MattCartwright and Conor Lamb are continuing their assault on Pennsylvania’s oil
and gas industry with their votes AGAINST a measure prohibiting future presidents from banning fracking. The new legislation follows
a disturbing trend for Cartwright & Lamb’s
party, which is waging war against the fossil fuel industry and the millions of
jobs it provides. They bothendorsed Joe Biden, who has made it
clear he wants to “get rid of fossil fuels.” Cartwright
and Lamb just don’t care about protecting the good-paying jobs PA
families rely on.
(SC-01) Now that Bernie Sanders is the Democratic frontrunner,
House Democrats are in a complete panic at the thought of having
to own Sanders’ socialist agenda. That includes Joe Cunningham
who is TERRIFIED. Cunningham came out and slammed the frontrunner proclaiming Sanders“will
not be the nominee.”Unfortunately for Joe, that’s not how it works. The Bernie Bros don’t
want a DC politician telling them who gets to be the nominee!
(TX-07, TX-32) Lizzie Fletcher and Colin Allred also get their
marching orders from Nancy Pelosi. This week both Fletcher and Allred
held strong and joined their socialist colleagues in rejecting
a measure that prohibits future presidents from banning fracking, just like
they did in October. So much for all the Texas families who rely on oil and gas
jobs to get by…
(UT-04) Not so bipartisan Ben McAdams joined every single one of
his Democrat colleagues this week in voting AGAINST a measure that would prohibit future presidents from
unilaterally banning fracking. McAdams’ vote should be particularly
worrisome, especially since his job approval rating has dropped double-digits during the socialist Democrats’
deranged impeachment quest, something McAdamshopes voters will forget.
(VA-02) The Hill reported this week that fake-moderate Elaine
Luria admitted she’s “behind whoever wins the nomination” and
won’t rule out backing Bernie Sanders. This make sense for Luria,
who despite claiming to be a moderate, votes with her party’s socialist agenda
over 90% of the time and was a leader on the impeachment sham. Elaine
is clearly not a moderate and will stop at nothing to back her extreme socialist party…
News & Notes
Daily Caller: Impeachment Gave Republicans A Cash Boost — Here’s How They
Plan To Maintaining It
Congressional Republicans raised more than Democrats in January for the first
time in months, and they expect that momentum to keep up.
NRCC National Press Secretary Michael McAdams sat down with the Daily Caller’s
Anders Hagstrom, saying Democrats’ impeachment attempt against President Donald
Trump gave the boost to Republicans. Democrats out-raised Republicans massively
in 2019, however, and Republicans still face a $40 million deficit.
McAdams says they’re counting on a continued surge in Republican enthusiasm as
Democrats turn to the most radical members of their party for presidential
nominees. WATCH.
Washington Times: ‘Terrified of Bernie’: Sanders’ socialism spooks
swing-district Democrats
The prospect of having to defend socialism to their constituents is giving
House Democrats in swing districts the heebie-jeebies.
Lawmakers who flipped Republican-held districts in the 2018 elections are
growing worried as they ponder their prospects if they head into November with
Sen. Bernard Sanders, a self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist, at the top of
their ticket.
…
The conversations have become much more intense since Mr. Sanders won the New
Hampshire primary and garnered the most votes in Iowa’s caucuses — though
former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg ended up with more delegates
awarded from Iowa.
Party leaders have begun to fret that a Sanders candidacy could cost them
control of the House, The New York Times reported. READ.
POLITICO Morning Score: A peek behind the NRCC fundraising curtain
MONEY MOVES — The NRCC outraised the DCCC last month for the first time in two
years, a feat party operatives say is a sign that they are finally getting the
hang of digital fundraising after years of being savaged by Democrats and
ActBlue.
The NRCC’s $12.6 million January haul is its highest non-March haul in years.
(The GOP campaign arm hosts its annual fundraising dinner every March.)
Transfers from members and their leadership PACs were under $1 million,
according to the committee. But $6.8 million of that total came from grassroots
donations, via mail, phones and online — about $2 million more than December
grassroots donations to the committee. This could be the impeachment boost that
House Republicans were waiting for, or it could be fleeting now that the trial
has concluded.
For comparison, the DCCC raised $12.1 million in January with $5.8 million of
that coming from grassroots donations. But Democrats shouldn’t be too worried
yet. One month doesn’t make a trend, and they certainly have a massive
cash-on-hand advantage. Plus Democratic incumbents are raising unprecedented
amounts of money . But the NRCC needs to see some kind of uptick to stay in the
game.
House Republicans have already seen success from their attempts to grow their
digital operation by investing in Google and Facebook ads to grow their email
lists and consulting with Trump’s fundraising team. Their online fundraising
total in 2019 was $22.6 million, up from $5.8 million in 2017, a 390 percent
increase. Meanwhile, the DCCC raised $38 million online in the off-year. READ.
East Cobb News: McBath endorses Bloomberg’s Democratic presidential campaign
U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath is endorsing former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
McBath, a first-term Democrat from Marietta who represents the 6th
Congressional District of Georgia, said Wednesday that Bloomberg
“has given mothers like me a way to fight back against gun violence.
…
McBath’s endorsement has stirred some controversy. Charles Blow, a columnist
at The New York Times, accused her in a social media posting of being bought by Bloomberg.
A conservative group, Americans for Public Trust, has filed ethics complaints against
McBath and other House Democrats, according to Fox News.
The complaint against McBath claims that she was a public spokeswoman for
Everytown for Gun Safety as a paid employee while she was campaigning for
Congress. READ.