really have a strategy. they don t have a message, they haven t shown really anything other than probably they have these pretty terrible candidates with these extremist views. so, part of it, ideological, i agree, but part of it is to cover your ass now. let me ask you, xochitl, about that for a moment. about the spending debate. the gop has been on display with the funding in races like blake masters s race in arizona. you have billionaire investor peter thiel rebuffing senate minority leader mitch mcconnell s request for more super pac funding for the arizona race. and then, you have mcconnell senate leadership fund abandoning about $8 million worth of ad spending for masters, because i believe he diverted it to ohio, because j.d. vance is in trouble in that race. how important is this infighting among the gop, when it comes to campaign funding, and what does it say where the dollars are going about who is winning? well it s a very important argument here. i think that whenever
late to realize. so, he s starting to lash out, it feels like, trying to figure out, okay, if this goes down, if we don t have this under our watch, which we should have, i gotta start blaming someone. i gotta blame the people of top down or candidates even though that that is, you know, just shown that they have the talks to run in these statewide races, and get the votes needed to actually win. cristóbal, is this an ideological divide, or simply a personality divide between mitch mcconnell and the trump backed candidates? yeah, i think that s a quick question. my guess it s a little bit of both. , i mean, it seems to me that this is a cover your ass moment for rick scott and republicans in the senate. and i can talk about the fundraising point either. major donors are not doing what they need to be doing on the super pac side. i ve learned that $8 million have been pulled down from spending in arizona. and the small dollar donations are also drying out as we just heard, because th
than someone entitled to office? i want to point out something very directly that many people are saying and saying probably even as this program is airing, and that s what do we know about what a candidate clinton would be about? what about the issues? what would it be? and i raise that question, because all of the organizing that s happening on the super pac side can be solely focused on the organizing side, and what that means is a potential candidate, hillary clinton, is free to figure all of that out on her own and on her own time table. i think it s, again, a lovely division of labor. and if we re looking at what you suggest might be a $3 billion campaign, and i ve heard suggestions it might be even above that, the rnc put out a fundraising appeal asking for contributions of $16 to help fight what it called the clinton machine in 2016. that s a lot of $16 dollars to
she was, we wouldn t have to be doing this organizing on the super pac side. so i definitely reject the word inevitable. all right. the panel will be right back. we ll have more on this and more on the political talk of the day. trivia time. janet napolitano is the first woman to succeed another woman as governor. she s succeeded jane d. hall as governor of arizona. congratulations to the day s winner, oliver. very good. congratulations to you. send your trivia suggestions to dailyrundown@msnbc.com. we ll be back. the capitol is slightly colder tomorrow. george. the day building a play set begins with a surprise twinge of back pain. and a choice. take up to 4 advil in a day or 2 aleve for all day relief. [ male announcer ] that s handy. tdd#: 1-888-852-213434 tjust waiting to be found. ties tdd#: 1-888-852-2134 at schwab, we re here to help
disadvantage that the obama people have this team that they didn t have four years ago when they were able to vastly outspend john mccain. we have new numbers from the campaign itself and they re pretty even. mitt romney raised just over $48 millio $40 million. obama $43 million. do you see the gap closing at all? i think the democrats are in trouble when it comes to super pac spending. and this is based on basically half a month of fund-raising because they didn t start their coordinating fund-raising until the middle of april. one thing about the crossroads ad. it s added at independent voter. it s not that they say he s bad man, you shouldn t trust him. they say he made promises. he hasn t kept them. so come over to our side. this is not a fired up debate.