You know, candidates out there trying to get cash and support and it s fractured and spread out, and it s not as concentrated as it once was. and so now they have to work harder to find those dollars. it s interesting because in the same respect as we re having this conversation about swing state voters essentially or swing state republicans, i should say, being left effectively broke as they re reporting, right, we are also having conversations about the former president fund-raising in record numbers after multiple indictments. how do you actually even reconcile this? how do you square this? his base support of 40 some percent of the republican party, those are small dollar donors. and they set up their accounts, take $50, $100, $250 a month off my credit card. so they just lock and load it in and go. trump meanwhile has other major donors in the party who still support him and still will help
This is. i think the bigger issue right now when you look at it from a purely political lens is this is starting to this will almost inevitably, when you talk to democrats in particular, some republicans, start to chip away at the suburban voters they have to win back. they cannot win it on trump s base support alone in terms of a general election. general election is a problem. everybody focuses on the primary, numbers aren t dropping. the general election is what matters. talk to republicans who are really care about what s going to happen and not just the primary, that s what they re focused on. of course. but a republican has to get through the primary troy win the general election, and the question is, is anybody who is opposing donald trump going to win with these kinds of arguments? the one trying the hardest is chris christie, his former friend, former governor of new jersey. listen to what he told jake tapper. it s only the era of donald trump that you need somebody to
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