The Truth About Trump's RNC Shakeup -- and Why the GOP Will Suffer

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : But with Trump, political dollars always seems to flow one way: to him.
53% : "Every single penny will go to the No. 1 and the only job of the RNC -- that is electing Donald J. Trump as President of the United States," she said.
49% : Brendan Fischer, deputy executive director of watchdog Documented, said Trump would almost certainly try to siphon more cash out of the system.
49% : "We have every reason to expect that Trump will get the RNC to include Save America as part of a joint fundraising agreement," Fischer said, noting that Save America initially had a joint agreement involving the RNC when it was launched after the 2020 election.
48% : During a monumental election year for the GOP, Trump has effectively taken over the Republican National Committee, a bid to ensure that the national fundraising juggernaut will chiefly serve him, and not other Republican efforts.
45% : That allocation is exactly what Trump wants to control, Libowitz said, so he can ensure he gets priority treatment.
43% : That arrangement would certainly sound good to Trump, who has shown no compunction about taking tens of millions of dollars from his donors and spending it on his personal legal battles.
42% : And even if Trump doesn't seize RNC cash for his own purposes, the prospect of him doing so could very well have a chilling effect on donors turning over their cash.
40% : Trump demands tithes at Trump properties, as well as unconditional, bare-knuckled political and media support, while returning very little himself.
40% : "Trump not being convicted before the election -- or not going on trial before the election -- is by itself worth more than any advertising campaign, and I think Democrats would agree" that the timing would be critical to the election, the source said.Democrats, of course, do agree.
38% : Immediately upon leaving office, for instance, Trump walled off his still-fearsome personal fundraising apparatus as "leverage" over potential turncoats looking to challenge him after the Jan. 6 insurrection, while threatening legal action against any Republicans -- including the RNC -- who raised money off his name.
38% : "A lot of small dollars have been hoovered up by Trump.
37% : That's precisely why it's so notable that Trump picked Lara Trump as co-chair -- in addition to senior Trump adviser Chris LaCivita likely becoming the RNC's new chief operating officer and Trump-friendly Michael Watley earning the former president's endorsement to lead the RNC.
37% : Despite Lara Trump's priorities, simply electing Trump isn't the RNC's only job.
37% : First, however, Trump has to shake internal competition from Nikki Haley -- until he's the nominee, the national fundraising efforts will have to hang in their holding pattern.
35% : But if the RNC is only going to operate with Trump in mind, it'll be a massive blow to down-ballot Republicans and state parties desperate for the cash infusion they usually get in presidential election years.
33% : "The RNC has revved up that "washing machine" even without Trump as the nominee.
31% : But that arrangement is far from set in stone, and Trump can still direct any money that he raises with the RNC straight to his legal defense.
29% : Trump will have more than enough say to turn on the money spigot, and can demand large personal cuts from party funds.
28% : "But he's robbing Peter to pay Paul, because this is donor money given to win an election, that he's now claiming for his own personal purposes," he said, noting that the potential combination of two enormous legal judgments against Trump in New York would only make Trump want more.
27% : Now, with Trump set to double-down on the same reckless choices that left the party with the lowest cash on hand headed into an election year in decades, there's no question the RNC's problems are set to get a whole lot worse before they get better.
27% : While the RNC has used the financial pressures to try to get Haley to drop out for the benefit of the party, she has shown no intention of empowering a party led by Trump.
22% : "After years of defending Donald Trump and backing whatever asinine schemes he proposed to try to overturn the 2020 election and put MAGA in control of the party, the RNC only has itself to blame for its losing electoral record and historically disastrous fundraising report.
19% : A shakeup providing Trump with more opportunities to purloin from the RNC couldn't come at a worse time for these groups.
16% : On Tuesday, Haley cited the RNC takeover itself as evidence that the party needs to ditch Trump, or get cannibalized by a dictator.
15% : Donald Trump doesn't want his snowballing legal troubles to just be his problem -- he's trying to make it an issue for the entire Republican Party.

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