campaign and the dnc in the fundraising push. and this is another effort to get some more money into their campaigns. coffers for these next five months, it ll be curious to see how this has responded to by candidates. steve contorno. thank you so much. appreciate it. okay. joining us now as republican strategist, we re gonna shaw and democratic strategist, chris go famous guys, let s start here. i mean, what do you think of this? ask of down-ballot candidates? i mean down-ballot candidates, they need all the cash they can get i mean, would you advise any of them to go along with this absolutely not. i would tell them to fight back. this is not just unconventional. it s not just a business deal. it is almost mafioso like, and i think of course that s just tracks with who trump fit. he treats politics just like, a mob boss would in many ways. and so if anything, this isn t like a show of, hey, you know, this could be party unity. give us a little here. this is putting a little bit
essentially, who s on his team and who isn t and so if you think about this in terms of the entire country, especially in those key battlegrounds, you can almost, you can almost come to reverse engineer. all right, in some of the key races, who s like leaning into trump, who s running away. and that could help shape their strategy. so i think it s bigger than just money because i think unless they re completely delusional, they know they re going to lose the money rais, i think this is more about political control and campaign control. it feels like too many backflips to get there. why don t you just ask the campaigns, are you with us? are you going to separate yourself from us regardless i don t run campaigns. renal. let s talk about what s happened on the hill in the last 24 hours. the senate dismiss the articles of impeachment against the dhs secretary, ending the republican push. they re in house republican speaker not making friends with the right flank and moving ahead with the
that money for their own races. we all know the rnc not coming to help anymore. they haven t got as much cash. so why are you trying to steal? so from the little guy, again, trump it is i giggle a little bit, chris. it was just like talk about unconventional and the ot and pt top of unconventional. i saw on the political reporting and steve was talking about this to the trouble officials. they re insisting that the purpose of the 5% split is not to raise money for themselves but to dissuade scammers from using trump s brand without permission i mean, what do you think? maybe novel fundraising strategy or something more desperate i don t know if its desperate i mean, we could be i mean, i think there s a couple of things clearly, he s got a money problem. they re going to he s going to lose the money rais, i think that is already clear i think the other part to it that i think is maybe the more kind of controlling aspect of this i think the trump campaign wants to know who s using his