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Good lord, it’s like the 700 Club. Do people actually watch this shit. I mean 2020 will be like 4 years ago come November and you want POOTWH to be named POTUS for the previous 4 years or some shit? How stupid are these cultists anyway?
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The maga reps are threatening to remove Johnson if he brings the border / Ukraine bill to a vote. The few moderates left in the party should threaten to remove him if he DOESN'T bring it to a vote.
It passed 70-29 in the Senate and would probably pass in the house too, but it was shut down as we all know, because trump needs to exploit the border for his campaign.
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The maga reps are threatening to remove Johnson if he brings the border / Ukraine bill to a vote. The few moderates left in the party should threaten to remove him if he DOESN'T bring it to a vote.
It passed 70-29 in the Senate and would probably pass in the house too, but it was shut down as we all know, because trump needs to exploit the border for his campaign.
then theres the discharge petition that should have been worked on from jump when mini me refused to bring up the border/aid bill.
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But
it appears that one of those strategic spending moves may have a
profound effect on a successful minority outreach program, which two
people with knowledge of the plans characterized as self-defeating,
potentially erasing gains with groups of gettable new voters who have
cooled on the Democratic Party.
As one of the sources put it to The Daily Beast, the tagline might as well be “Make the RNC White Again.”
The
program at issue is an initiative from the 2022 midterms where RNC
field staff engaged voters through gatherings and events held at
community centers in areas with heavy minority populations, most
specifically Latino communities.
In
January, The Messenger reported that the RNC had already shuttered most
of the nearly two dozen Hispanic Community Centers that served as the
base for the program, leaving just five open. (The Messenger’s content
vanished when it went out of business shortly thereafter, but the article was captured by the nonprofit Internet Archive.)
At
the time, however, the RNC chalked the closures up as a temporary
byproduct of its budget cycle. However, the organization also announced
that it was preparing to double down on these efforts for 2024, opening
40 new centers in Latino, Black, Asian American, Native American,
Jewish, and veteran communities across the country. That would include
establishing outposts in key battlegrounds like Las Vegas, Nevada,
Tuscon, Arizona, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Allentown, Pennsylvania, The
Messenger reported.
Jaime Florez, the RNC’s Hispanic
communications director, told The Messenger that “Democrats have taken
the Hispanic community for granted for far too long” and vowed that the
RNC planned to capitalize on those opportunities.
“Republicans
will continue to make historic investments in Hispanic voter outreach,
from opening more community centers to launching ‘Deposita Tu Voto’,
that will further our gains with Hispanic voters and deliver Republican
victories in 2024,” Florez said at the time.
But two people with
knowledge of the plans told The Daily Beast that the RNC has decided to
scrap that effort. Instead, the people said, the community center
program now appears to be another casualty of the RNC’s recent
restructuring—a bloodbath that has already claimed several dozen jobs,
including senior leadership posts, along with the apparent decimation
of field operations and other strategic realignments that could come at
the cost of Republican candidates across the country not fortunate
enough to be named Trump.
Instead of going after minority voters, the RNC apparently plans to remake itself even more in Trump’s image.
While
the size and complexity of modern presidential races demands close
coordination between the candidate’s campaign and the national party,
the unique pressures on Trump and the RNC—external and internal—forced a
reckoning that has taken that standard teambuilding exercise to a new
realm.
The catalyst for those events is the very real prospect of
financial crisis now facing the two groups, thanks to stratospheric
personal legal costs on Trump’s part and unsustainable fundraising and
spending for both organizations. Coupled with demands for unconditional
fealty to the MAGA brand—which have exacerbated fault lines within the
party—the RNC found itself at an inflection point coming into 2024.
To
resolve the tension, Trump essentially took control of the RNC. He
forced out longtime chair Ronna McDaniel, replacing her with a trio of
MAGA loyalists—including his own daughter-in-law, Lara Trump—who
uprooted some of the RNC’s most experienced staff and welded the two
organizations into what amounts to a single-purpose machine designed to
fuel Trump’s attempt to reclaim the White House.
Former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel.
Joshua Roberts/Reuters
While
one short-term goal is to minimize costs, the moves could come at great
political expense in the long term, especially for down-ballot
candidates who depend on the RNC for critical funding and other
resources. But there are other intangible losses, like the exodus of
talent, a blooming vacuum of institutional knowledge, and sapping
momentum from field projects like the community center program.
That
project not only had promise, it came at the right time. After ignoring
their own “autopsy” of the GOP’s 2012 presidential loss, many
Republicans began to court minority voters in the wake of Trump’s 2016
win. As paradoxical as that may seem, given Trump’s rhetoric and
policies, those efforts appear to be bearing some fruit.
Today, a sizable portion of minority voters—historically a reliable well of Democratic support—have exhibited a disaffection with the party,
particularly in younger demographics, drifting towards Republicans who
champion conservative ideologies that have long been culturally
ingrained in those communities but had not in themselves inspired voters
to change parties.
There are competing explanations
for this shift. For instance, some analysts argue it’s more an
expression of educational shifts than of racial realignment. But no
matter the underlying cause, after Trump’s decisive 2020 defeat in the
popular vote, the RNC set about trying to connect with Hispanic groups
on the grassroots level.
The community centers were key to that
effort. They were viewed as a success and point of pride, sources with
knowledge of the project told The Daily Beast. The Messenger described
the project’s pitch as “a dream intersection of fun, civic life,
candidate recruitment, and GOTV muscle,” reporting that in the midterms
the centers hosted events like toy drives, religious services, holiday
meals, cultural celebrations—and, for some reason, cryptocurrency
workshops.
“Community centers continued to pop up in Hispanic
communities and positive headlines continued to flow,” The Messenger
reported.
While it’s difficult to measure the cost of these
programs, people familiar with the effort shrugged off the expenses as
comparatively minimal, especially given the positive preliminary
returns. Most of the overhead, they said, would be related to renting
space for the centers, along with staffing expenses and incidentals for
events.
The RNC previously indicated that the
rationalization for temporarily closing the centers was financial,
considering the party’s cash woes. But if that’s also the explanation
for a permanent shutdown, the savings would be thin.
Federal
Election Commission filings show that in 2022, the RNC spent a grand
total of just over $2 million on rent, with much of it going to
campaigns and state and local parties for joint field work in the
midterms. But some outlays give an idea of the cost—such as the $3,500
per month that the RNC paid to “No Limits Community Development” in
Georgia. By comparison, around the same time, the RNC agreed to pay $1.6
million to cover Trump’s personal legal costs.
These rent
payments also wouldn’t divert a penny of the RNC’s political money.
Instead, the rent expenses came out of the party’s “building” account, a
specially segregated bank account that can only be tapped for expenses
related to buildings and maintenance.
The Daily Beast
reached out to an RNC spokesperson for comment, who provided a
statement from Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung. The
statement called the criticism of the community center closures
“racist” and “complete bullshit,” but did not deny that the program had
shut down.
“The racist accusations about the RNC and Trump
campaign are complete bullshit, President Trump did more to benefit
minority communities during his first term than any other President,
especially Crooked Joe Biden, and that’s why he’s polling better with
Black and Hispanic Americans,” Cheung said in the statement. (The metric
Trump most favors to measure his efficacy as an advocate for the Black
community—Black unemployment—reached new record lows under Biden.)
Cheung was apparently referencing a recent New York Times/Siena poll
that put Trump 6 points ahead of President Joe Biden in Hispanic
voters—a major shift, but in line with the recent inroads that Trump and
the GOP have made in certain Latino communities, like southern Florida.
However, the same poll showed that, while Biden’s support among Black voters has appeared to weaken,
he still holds a 66-23 lead in that demographic over Trump, who has
repeatedly expressed that his multiple criminal indictments are
something he has in common with the Black community.
“I think that’s why the Black people are so much on my side now," Trump told
attendees at an event for Black conservatives in South Carolina last
month. "Because they see what’s happening to me happens to them.”
“President
Trump will only continue to make gains with minority communities, just
as he did from 2016 to 2020, no matter what the lowlifes at the Daily
Beast report,” Cheung added.
The
shuttered community outreach program would certainly be one way to do
so. But that program was not an entirely smooth ride. It had its critics
even within the GOP, who argued that while the initial effort was
commendable, minority outreach works best as a long-term, continual
investment, not an election-year burst of interest.
“They
tried; we appreciate that,” Daniel Garza, executive director of
grassroots Latino outreach group the LIBRE Initiative, told The
Messenger in January. “But you have to have people on the inside who can
advise you—these are long-term things that need to be backed by
resources.”
In fairness, some projects themselves had setbacks. In
Oklahoma City, the RNC Hispanic Community Center—which has since
shuttered—got off to a rocky start.
At the opening
of the site in July of 2022, the RNC honored Jonathan Hernandez,
president of the Oklahoma College Republicans and a political operative
in the state. But Hernandez was arrested
less than a week later on charges of indecent or lewd acts with a minor
and forcible oral sodomy. He pleaded guilty, got a five-year suspended
sentence, and was ordered to register as a sex offender.
After the charges, he had no further involvement with the community center. Now, no one else will either.
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Will Faux run the story in an endless loop proclaiming crime in liberal, sick ‘Murica and its dem infested cities is out of control and it’s all Brandon’s fault? Will certain posters here post or respond with a faux news or OAN report of same but without commentary?
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But others told the outlet that their choice simply boiled down to not wanting to spend more time with their boisterous colleagues. Together, the Republican-led House has amounted to one of the least productive congressional sessions in history, passing a measly 27 bills that became law in 2023 out of a sum total of 724 votes. That same Republican-led House has continued to stall on core elements of their jobs well into 2024, including passing government spending bills and foreign aid assistance.
But others told the outlet that their choice simply boiled down to not wanting to spend more time with their boisterous colleagues. Together, the Republican-led House has amounted to one of the least productive congressional sessions in history, passing a measly 27 bills that became law in 2023 out of a sum total of 724 votes. That same Republican-led House has continued to stall on core elements of their jobs well into 2024, including passing government spending bills and foreign aid assistance.
The sum total of the GOP's efforts now are simply to tie things up in knots, stall, waste time, etc. Completely unhinged and unproductive. Looking back on this era, history will not be kind to them.
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
But others told the outlet that their choice simply boiled down to not wanting to spend more time with their boisterous colleagues. Together, the Republican-led House has amounted to one of the least productive congressional sessions in history, passing a measly 27 bills that became law in 2023 out of a sum total of 724 votes. That same Republican-led House has continued to stall on core elements of their jobs well into 2024, including passing government spending bills and foreign aid assistance.
The sum total of the GOP's efforts now are simply to tie things up in knots, stall, waste time, etc. Completely unhinged and unproductive. Looking back on this era, history will not be kind to them.
Maybe not, though. If things continue down this path and the government becomes more of a kakistocracy, maybe this will be looked back as the golden era, when politicians could really get things done. Scary thought, right? It's always relative, and as it gets worse, we seem to excuse the behaviours of not-too-many-years-ago in light of what we see in the current day.
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But others told the outlet that their choice simply boiled down to not wanting to spend more time with their boisterous colleagues. Together, the Republican-led House has amounted to one of the least productive congressional sessions in history, passing a measly 27 bills that became law in 2023 out of a sum total of 724 votes. That same Republican-led House has continued to stall on core elements of their jobs well into 2024, including passing government spending bills and foreign aid assistance.
The sum total of the GOP's efforts now are simply to tie things up in knots, stall, waste time, etc. Completely unhinged and unproductive. Looking back on this era, history will not be kind to them.
Maybe not, though. If things continue down this path and the government becomes more of a kakistocracy, maybe this will be looked back as the golden era, when politicians could really get things done. Scary thought, right? It's always relative, and as it gets worse, we seem to excuse the behaviours of not-too-many-years-ago in light of what we see in the current day.
Ain't that the truth? trump makes me long for the days of GW. Go figure.
But others told the outlet that their choice simply boiled down to not wanting to spend more time with their boisterous colleagues. Together, the Republican-led House has amounted to one of the least productive congressional sessions in history, passing a measly 27 bills that became law in 2023 out of a sum total of 724 votes. That same Republican-led House has continued to stall on core elements of their jobs well into 2024, including passing government spending bills and foreign aid assistance.
The sum total of the GOP's efforts now are simply to tie things up in knots, stall, waste time, etc. Completely unhinged and unproductive. Looking back on this era, history will not be kind to them.
Maybe not, though. If things continue down this path and the government becomes more of a kakistocracy, maybe this will be looked back as the golden era, when politicians could really get things done. Scary thought, right? It's always relative, and as it gets worse, we seem to excuse the behaviours of not-too-many-years-ago in light of what we see in the current day.
Ain't that the truth? trump makes me long for the days of GW. Go figure.
Isn't it crazy...back when you were bummed out when you're candidate lost but it wasn't like the end of the world.
I saw an interview with Romney last night and was again remembering how a lot of these tRump voters were all on board the Mitt train several years ago and now they wouldn't save him from drowning. Fucked up mess.
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But others told the outlet that their choice simply boiled down to not wanting to spend more time with their boisterous colleagues. Together, the Republican-led House has amounted to one of the least productive congressional sessions in history, passing a measly 27 bills that became law in 2023 out of a sum total of 724 votes. That same Republican-led House has continued to stall on core elements of their jobs well into 2024, including passing government spending bills and foreign aid assistance.
The sum total of the GOP's efforts now are simply to tie things up in knots, stall, waste time, etc. Completely unhinged and unproductive. Looking back on this era, history will not be kind to them.
Maybe not, though. If things continue down this path and the government becomes more of a kakistocracy, maybe this will be looked back as the golden era, when politicians could really get things done. Scary thought, right? It's always relative, and as it gets worse, we seem to excuse the behaviours of not-too-many-years-ago in light of what we see in the current day.
Ain't that the truth? trump makes me long for the days of GW. Go figure.
Isn't it crazy...back when you were bummed out when you're candidate lost but it wasn't like the end of the world.
I saw an interview with Romney last night and was again remembering how a lot of these tRump voters were all on board the Mitt train several years ago and now they wouldn't save him from drowning. Fucked up mess.
I would take Romney now over almost anyone in either party.
But others told the outlet that their choice simply boiled down to not wanting to spend more time with their boisterous colleagues. Together, the Republican-led House has amounted to one of the least productive congressional sessions in history, passing a measly 27 bills that became law in 2023 out of a sum total of 724 votes. That same Republican-led House has continued to stall on core elements of their jobs well into 2024, including passing government spending bills and foreign aid assistance.
The sum total of the GOP's efforts now are simply to tie things up in knots, stall, waste time, etc. Completely unhinged and unproductive. Looking back on this era, history will not be kind to them.
Maybe not, though. If things continue down this path and the government becomes more of a kakistocracy, maybe this will be looked back as the golden era, when politicians could really get things done. Scary thought, right? It's always relative, and as it gets worse, we seem to excuse the behaviours of not-too-many-years-ago in light of what we see in the current day.
Ain't that the truth? trump makes me long for the days of GW. Go figure.
Isn't it crazy...back when you were bummed out when you're candidate lost but it wasn't like the end of the world.
I saw an interview with Romney last night and was again remembering how a lot of these tRump voters were all on board the Mitt train several years ago and now they wouldn't save him from drowning. Fucked up mess.
I would take Romney now over almost anyone in either party.
Crazy indeed.
Yeah I would be completely fine with him.
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But others told the outlet that their choice simply boiled down to not wanting to spend more time with their boisterous colleagues. Together, the Republican-led House has amounted to one of the least productive congressional sessions in history, passing a measly 27 bills that became law in 2023 out of a sum total of 724 votes. That same Republican-led House has continued to stall on core elements of their jobs well into 2024, including passing government spending bills and foreign aid assistance.
The sum total of the GOP's efforts now are simply to tie things up in knots, stall, waste time, etc. Completely unhinged and unproductive. Looking back on this era, history will not be kind to them.
Maybe not, though. If things continue down this path and the government becomes more of a kakistocracy, maybe this will be looked back as the golden era, when politicians could really get things done. Scary thought, right? It's always relative, and as it gets worse, we seem to excuse the behaviours of not-too-many-years-ago in light of what we see in the current day.
Ain't that the truth? trump makes me long for the days of GW. Go figure.
Isn't it crazy...back when you were bummed out when you're candidate lost but it wasn't like the end of the world.
I saw an interview with Romney last night and was again remembering how a lot of these tRump voters were all on board the Mitt train several years ago and now they wouldn't save him from drowning. Fucked up mess.
And not just that, it’s that they see the pressure to conform under one ruler as a strength and a positive trait.
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But others told the outlet that their choice simply boiled down to not wanting to spend more time with their boisterous colleagues. Together, the Republican-led House has amounted to one of the least productive congressional sessions in history, passing a measly 27 bills that became law in 2023 out of a sum total of 724 votes. That same Republican-led House has continued to stall on core elements of their jobs well into 2024, including passing government spending bills and foreign aid assistance.
The sum total of the GOP's efforts now are simply to tie things up in knots, stall, waste time, etc. Completely unhinged and unproductive. Looking back on this era, history will not be kind to them.
Maybe not, though. If things continue down this path and the government becomes more of a kakistocracy, maybe this will be looked back as the golden era, when politicians could really get things done. Scary thought, right? It's always relative, and as it gets worse, we seem to excuse the behaviours of not-too-many-years-ago in light of what we see in the current day.
My first thought was, "No way that will happen..."
But others told the outlet that their choice simply boiled down to not wanting to spend more time with their boisterous colleagues. Together, the Republican-led House has amounted to one of the least productive congressional sessions in history, passing a measly 27 bills that became law in 2023 out of a sum total of 724 votes. That same Republican-led House has continued to stall on core elements of their jobs well into 2024, including passing government spending bills and foreign aid assistance.
The sum total of the GOP's efforts now are simply to tie things up in knots, stall, waste time, etc. Completely unhinged and unproductive. Looking back on this era, history will not be kind to them.
Maybe not, though. If things continue down this path and the government becomes more of a kakistocracy, maybe this will be looked back as the golden era, when politicians could really get things done. Scary thought, right? It's always relative, and as it gets worse, we seem to excuse the behaviours of not-too-many-years-ago in light of what we see in the current day.
Ain't that the truth? trump makes me long for the days of GW. Go figure.
And then I wonder, "Way?" I hope to God (or Buddha or Vishnu or Mother Nature) that history is anything other than kind to the orange monster god.
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It passed 70-29 in the Senate and would probably pass in the house too, but it was shut down as we all know, because trump needs to exploit the border for his campaign.
then theres the discharge petition that should have been worked on from jump when mini me refused to bring up the border/aid bill.
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Make the RNC White Again’: GOP Ends Minority Outreach Program
Roger Sollenberger
Senior Political Reporter
Animation by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty
After years of accusations of financial mismanagement, the Republican National Committee is overhauling its 2024 election operations—a full-on MAGA makeover that the RNC claims will curb excessive spending and steer as much money as possible to supporting Donald Trump’s campaign.
But it appears that one of those strategic spending moves may have a profound effect on a successful minority outreach program, which two people with knowledge of the plans characterized as self-defeating, potentially erasing gains with groups of gettable new voters who have cooled on the Democratic Party.
As one of the sources put it to The Daily Beast, the tagline might as well be “Make the RNC White Again.”
The program at issue is an initiative from the 2022 midterms where RNC field staff engaged voters through gatherings and events held at community centers in areas with heavy minority populations, most specifically Latino communities.
RNC Fires Dozens as Trump’s Favored Chairs Take Over: Report
In January, The Messenger reported that the RNC had already shuttered most of the nearly two dozen Hispanic Community Centers that served as the base for the program, leaving just five open. (The Messenger’s content vanished when it went out of business shortly thereafter, but the article was captured by the nonprofit Internet Archive.)
At the time, however, the RNC chalked the closures up as a temporary byproduct of its budget cycle. However, the organization also announced that it was preparing to double down on these efforts for 2024, opening 40 new centers in Latino, Black, Asian American, Native American, Jewish, and veteran communities across the country. That would include establishing outposts in key battlegrounds like Las Vegas, Nevada, Tuscon, Arizona, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Allentown, Pennsylvania, The Messenger reported.
Jaime Florez, the RNC’s Hispanic communications director, told The Messenger that “Democrats have taken the Hispanic community for granted for far too long” and vowed that the RNC planned to capitalize on those opportunities.
“Republicans will continue to make historic investments in Hispanic voter outreach, from opening more community centers to launching ‘Deposita Tu Voto’, that will further our gains with Hispanic voters and deliver Republican victories in 2024,” Florez said at the time.
But two people with knowledge of the plans told The Daily Beast that the RNC has decided to scrap that effort. Instead, the people said, the community center program now appears to be another casualty of the RNC’s recent restructuring—a bloodbath that has already claimed several dozen jobs, including senior leadership posts, along with the apparent decimation of field operations and other strategic realignments that could come at the cost of Republican candidates across the country not fortunate enough to be named Trump.
Instead of going after minority voters, the RNC apparently plans to remake itself even more in Trump’s image.
While the size and complexity of modern presidential races demands close coordination between the candidate’s campaign and the national party, the unique pressures on Trump and the RNC—external and internal—forced a reckoning that has taken that standard teambuilding exercise to a new realm.
The catalyst for those events is the very real prospect of financial crisis now facing the two groups, thanks to stratospheric personal legal costs on Trump’s part and unsustainable fundraising and spending for both organizations. Coupled with demands for unconditional fealty to the MAGA brand—which have exacerbated fault lines within the party—the RNC found itself at an inflection point coming into 2024.
To resolve the tension, Trump essentially took control of the RNC. He forced out longtime chair Ronna McDaniel, replacing her with a trio of MAGA loyalists—including his own daughter-in-law, Lara Trump—who uprooted some of the RNC’s most experienced staff and welded the two organizations into what amounts to a single-purpose machine designed to fuel Trump’s attempt to reclaim the White House.
Former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel.
Joshua Roberts/Reuters
While one short-term goal is to minimize costs, the moves could come at great political expense in the long term, especially for down-ballot candidates who depend on the RNC for critical funding and other resources. But there are other intangible losses, like the exodus of talent, a blooming vacuum of institutional knowledge, and sapping momentum from field projects like the community center program.
That project not only had promise, it came at the right time. After ignoring their own “autopsy” of the GOP’s 2012 presidential loss, many Republicans began to court minority voters in the wake of Trump’s 2016 win. As paradoxical as that may seem, given Trump’s rhetoric and policies, those efforts appear to be bearing some fruit.
Today, a sizable portion of minority voters—historically a reliable well of Democratic support—have exhibited a disaffection with the party, particularly in younger demographics, drifting towards Republicans who champion conservative ideologies that have long been culturally ingrained in those communities but had not in themselves inspired voters to change parties.
There are competing explanations for this shift. For instance, some analysts argue it’s more an expression of educational shifts than of racial realignment. But no matter the underlying cause, after Trump’s decisive 2020 defeat in the popular vote, the RNC set about trying to connect with Hispanic groups on the grassroots level.
The community centers were key to that effort. They were viewed as a success and point of pride, sources with knowledge of the project told The Daily Beast. The Messenger described the project’s pitch as “a dream intersection of fun, civic life, candidate recruitment, and GOTV muscle,” reporting that in the midterms the centers hosted events like toy drives, religious services, holiday meals, cultural celebrations—and, for some reason, cryptocurrency workshops.
“Community centers continued to pop up in Hispanic communities and positive headlines continued to flow,” The Messenger reported.
While it’s difficult to measure the cost of these programs, people familiar with the effort shrugged off the expenses as comparatively minimal, especially given the positive preliminary returns. Most of the overhead, they said, would be related to renting space for the centers, along with staffing expenses and incidentals for events.
The RNC previously indicated that the rationalization for temporarily closing the centers was financial, considering the party’s cash woes. But if that’s also the explanation for a permanent shutdown, the savings would be thin.
RNC Hands Keys Over to Trump and His Handpicked Loyalists
Josh Fiallo
Federal Election Commission filings show that in 2022, the RNC spent a grand total of just over $2 million on rent, with much of it going to campaigns and state and local parties for joint field work in the midterms. But some outlays give an idea of the cost—such as the $3,500 per month that the RNC paid to “No Limits Community Development” in Georgia. By comparison, around the same time, the RNC agreed to pay $1.6 million to cover Trump’s personal legal costs.
These rent payments also wouldn’t divert a penny of the RNC’s political money. Instead, the rent expenses came out of the party’s “building” account, a specially segregated bank account that can only be tapped for expenses related to buildings and maintenance.
The Daily Beast reached out to an RNC spokesperson for comment, who provided a statement from Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung. The statement called the criticism of the community center closures “racist” and “complete bullshit,” but did not deny that the program had shut down.
“The racist accusations about the RNC and Trump campaign are complete bullshit, President Trump did more to benefit minority communities during his first term than any other President, especially Crooked Joe Biden, and that’s why he’s polling better with Black and Hispanic Americans,” Cheung said in the statement. (The metric Trump most favors to measure his efficacy as an advocate for the Black community—Black unemployment—reached new record lows under Biden.)
Cheung was apparently referencing a recent New York Times/Siena poll that put Trump 6 points ahead of President Joe Biden in Hispanic voters—a major shift, but in line with the recent inroads that Trump and the GOP have made in certain Latino communities, like southern Florida.
However, the same poll showed that, while Biden’s support among Black voters has appeared to weaken, he still holds a 66-23 lead in that demographic over Trump, who has repeatedly expressed that his multiple criminal indictments are something he has in common with the Black community.
“I think that’s why the Black people are so much on my side now," Trump told attendees at an event for Black conservatives in South Carolina last month. "Because they see what’s happening to me happens to them.”
“President Trump will only continue to make gains with minority communities, just as he did from 2016 to 2020, no matter what the lowlifes at the Daily Beast report,” Cheung added.
RNC Chair to Step Aside as Trump Takes Back Control of GOP
Philippe Naughton
The shuttered community outreach program would certainly be one way to do so. But that program was not an entirely smooth ride. It had its critics even within the GOP, who argued that while the initial effort was commendable, minority outreach works best as a long-term, continual investment, not an election-year burst of interest.
“They tried; we appreciate that,” Daniel Garza, executive director of grassroots Latino outreach group the LIBRE Initiative, told The Messenger in January. “But you have to have people on the inside who can advise you—these are long-term things that need to be backed by resources.”
In fairness, some projects themselves had setbacks. In Oklahoma City, the RNC Hispanic Community Center—which has since shuttered—got off to a rocky start.
At the opening of the site in July of 2022, the RNC honored Jonathan Hernandez, president of the Oklahoma College Republicans and a political operative in the state. But Hernandez was arrested less than a week later on charges of indecent or lewd acts with a minor and forcible oral sodomy. He pleaded guilty, got a five-year suspended sentence, and was ordered to register as a sex offender.
After the charges, he had no further involvement with the community center. Now, no one else will either.
Roger Sollenberger
Senior Political Reporter
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"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
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going with cooperating witness, sentence contingent on testimony....
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But others told the outlet that their choice simply boiled down to not wanting to spend more time with their boisterous colleagues. Together, the Republican-led House has amounted to one of the least productive congressional sessions in history, passing a measly 27 bills that became law in 2023 out of a sum total of 724 votes. That same Republican-led House has continued to stall on core elements of their jobs well into 2024, including passing government spending bills and foreign aid assistance.
https://newrepublic.com/post/179797/house-republican-infighting-annual-retreat-total-bust
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The sum total of the GOP's efforts now are simply to tie things up in knots, stall, waste time, etc. Completely unhinged and unproductive. Looking back on this era, history will not be kind to them.
EV
Toronto Film Festival 9/11/2007, '08 - Toronto 1 & 2, '09 - Albany 1, '11 - Chicago 1
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Chicago; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana
Crazy indeed.
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Chicago; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana
And then I wonder, "Way?" I hope to God (or Buddha or Vishnu or Mother Nature) that history is anything other than kind to the orange monster god.