Thread: Sure, the Democrats Hate Trump. Only Problem: They’re Running Out of Cash

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December 27, 2017 at 4:12pm



The Democratic National Committee continues to be plagued by record-low fundraising numbers despite rising enthusiasm among Democratic voters — a situation that strongly suggests supporters of the party have no faith in DNC operations.

In a report to the Federal Election Commission, the DNC revealed that it had only $6.3 million in the bank on Dec. 1, with several million in outstanding debt.

In contrast, the RNC boasted six times this amount, $40 million, and no outstanding debt, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The disparity could prove pivotal as the 2018 midterms quickly approach and candidates in competitive races across the country look to their party for financial backing.

The filings were just the latest in a string of terrible financial news for the DNC as officials continue to suffer from record-low contributions.

November was the party’s worst fundraising year in a decade. Before that, the DNC posted its lowest October fundraising numbers in about 15 years — raking in only $3.9 million.

This trend has ultimately resulted in the worst fundraising for the DNC in a non-election year since 2007.

While performing better than the party overall, Democratic campaign committees are also behind their GOP counterparts.

For example, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee closed the month of November with $34.2 million in the bank, a much smaller amount than the National Republican Campaign Committee’s $42.3 million.

The numbers are baffling, considering the party out of power usually enjoys greater enthusiasm and donations from party faithfuls.

In fact, a fresh Wall Street Journal/NBC survey found 50 percent of respondents prefer Democrats to lead Congress while only 39 percent of respondents said they wanted Republicans to maintain control.

Such vigor is proving not to be of any help to a party that has lost control of both chambers of Congress, the White House and countless gubernatorial and state legislative seats.

One factor that appears to be a major reason Democratic donors have refused to open up their checkbooks — reputational damage stemming from the 2016 election.

In early November, former DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile revealed that the party she lead during the 2016 election unethically favored Hillary Clinton over insurgent candidate Bernie Sanders, something many had already suspected after former DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned in disgrace over the matter.

Brazile went into detail about the fundraising arrangement between the DNC and the Clinton campaign that left the party in weak financial standing and closer than it should’ve been to a candidate that had not yet won the nomination.

Clinton herself has piled on to the criticism of her party, stating during a conference earlier this year, “I mean, it was bankrupt. It was on the verge of insolvency. Its data was mediocre to poor, nonexistent, wrong.”

The terrible press this year has left the party with an abhorrent reputation and typical donors looking elsewhere to spend their money.

After only five months on the job, the DNC fired its finance director, Emily Mellencamp Smith, in November after no improvements in their financial situation materialized, as reported by Politico.

Despite the staff shake-up, it doesn’t appear things are changing.

“At this point, there’s not really anyone at the DNC who I would trust with my money,” said John Morgan, a major Florida Democratic donor, to the WSJ.

“Why would I write big checks to them when I can do my own thing?”

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Truth be told, the Democratic Party should have been shut down in 1865. The harm they have caused our people is unspeakable. The manner in which they have done it is as wicked and evil as it gets. They rode the wave of civil rights, not to help black Americans, but to control them. They saw the black population move north after the Civil War. They tried to fight it as if it didn't matter, but 100 years later they decided a new tactic, instead of oppressing blacks, they would take a new ownership of them by signing on with finally passing the civil rights acts of the 1960's that Republicans had been trying to pass since 1865. But it wasn't to help blacks, it was to couple it with welfare and trap them permanently in inner city generational poverty on welfare, a guaranteed voting bloc to guarantee Democrat Party control of our major cities. Worked like a charm, didn't it?

9 years ago, my county which is half or more black, had 13% unemployment for years up to that point. We also were above the federal poverty rate at about 16% when the federal poverty rate was 13%. Today our unemployment rate is 7% and our poverty rate is 22%. See the problem? Yes, the workers who would line up every day at the unemployment office, lines out of the door and down the street, seeking work, gave up and are now on permanent poverty care in low income housing, on Medicaid, on food stamps and whatever other program they can find to survive. These are the same people who used to stand in unemployment lines to get a few days work, a few weeks of work, hoping something would lead to a permanent job they could live on. But none came and after years of this they said, what's the point? And they were right, there was no point. So now they're stuck, trapped, but alive with a roof over their heads and some food on the table with health care if they need it. And they don't want anyone messing with it, either. Sure they'd like a good job, one that pays as much or more than the benefits they have for free. But until those jobs come back, until those jobs are here in my county with good employers they can trust, they aren't going to forfeit the first stability they've had in decades. It's not great, it's not ideal, it's not what they wanted, it's just what they ended up with due to disgusting Anti-American policies by the federal government on the issues of taxation, trade and immigration designed specifically to take down American Workers and with US, the United States.

But hey, everyone here is happy, there's no more unsightly lines outside the unemployment office any more and failed economic developers can show how much lower our unemployment rate is while business owners on the city council can brag about having 20 applicants to 1 new job opening, the next generation trying to find their own place, instead of the 4 to 1 he had to suffer through a decade or more ago.

To understand this, people have to first understand that our low employment rate doesn't mean more people are working, it means more have given up looking for work. When businesses claim they can't find labor to fill 6 million jobs, it means they aren't looking for American Workers, they're waiting and whining for a new crop of immigrants and illegal aliens.

It's why they hate Trump, he's tearing down their little house of cards, poking holes in their racist hiring policies, taking their globalist "free trade" toys away from them, shutting down the evil Paris Accord and so much more. And yes, these Trump Haters are pissed. It's so bad the Democrats want to impeach a President who is fixing our country and the NeverTrumpers want to throw him out in 2020 for some of the same reasons.

But be of good cheer, dear Americans, Trump is in the White House doing what he needs to do to fix our country in spite of them all. And he will prevail, which means we will prevail.