waiting something special, if you will, for the whip jim clyburn, and bringing in some of this new leadership. people should know that the dccc was strapped for cash the season, and he should not have been. lots of people donated, okay? but they ran out of money sooner than they thought. and it was speaker pelosi and others who went around the country raising money. i would also note the president there, raising money, the vice president, the first lady and second gentleman. if, in fact, democrats keep the house, part of it will be due to the money that speaker pelosi herself went out there and got for the membership. no one at this point is challenging her gravitas at their. they ve been able to keep the caucus together and raise the funds like she has. and if she would like to stay, people would be happy to have. what i thought was really interesting when reverend al was here, and he was saying, if you saw raphael warnock tonight, with very interesting herschel walker, what happens
so, what is the republican party after then? what people follow ted cruz? i don t think i wouldn t follow ted cruz into an elevator. so, i i really asking for the republican party come back to some senses after this? to that point, in a column you wrote following the january 6th attack, i remember when you wrote this and i think you were on to talk about it. you said my number one wish for america today is for this republican party to fracture, splitting off the principled republicans from the unprincipled republicans and trump cultists. that was i mean, that was basically a year ago. why do you think that big split didn t happen? well, you know, partly, i think we all wanted covid. we were absorbed by the pandemic and i think we all we just wanted this to go away. okay? i think 2022 is going to be crunch time. you know, larry hogan my governor in maryland um, he has been going around the country raising money for republicans who are on trump s enemies list and that
splitting off the principled republicans from the unprincipled republicans and trump cultists. that was i mean, that was basically a year ago. why do you think that big split didn t happen? well, you know, partly, i think we all wanted covid. we were absorbed by the pandemic and i think we all we just wanted this to go away. okay? i think 2022 is going to be crunch time. you know, larry hogan my governor in maryland um, he has been going around the country raising money for republicans who are on trump s enemies list and that s a very interesting experiment going on. and let s see what what energy he galvanized. at the same time, the american business community. the big business community of america. many of them announced after january 6th, anderson, that they would not donate to anyone who voted to decertify the election. are they going to hold to that promise going forward? will their shareholders hold them to that promise? will their employees hold them to that promis
you did public service and you didn t go make tons of money afterwards. harry truman who won world war ii, afterwards there is a famous story him being invited to speak and he shamefully writes and says can you pay the train ticket for me and my wife. now you do public service and people are making millions of dollars, that s not what there is supposed to be. steve: there s a ban on that? a ban on that. steve: we were talking to someone about lobbying. very much in line with that, the members themselves, because they don t spend the time on it. the policy work is contracting to start and junior on the stand and the lobbyists come in and hand then the ideas that benefit the corporations because the members aren t really engaged enough in that. you talked about flying around the country raising money, what s that? i think that the costs of the campaigns continues to skyrocket. what was spend in the georgia race, $50 million.
you did public service and you didn t go make tons of money afterwards. harry truman who won world war ii, afterwards there is a famous story him being invited to speak and he shamefully writes and says can you pay the train ticket for me and my wife. now you do public service and people are making millions of dollars, that s not what there is supposed to be. steve: there s a ban on that? a ban on that. steve: we were talking to someone about lobbying. very much in line with that, the members themselves, because they don t spend the time on it. the policy work is contracting to start and junior on the stand and the lobbyists come in and hand then the ideas that benefit the corporations because the members aren t really engaged enough in that. you talked about flying around the country raising money, what s that? i think that the costs of the campaigns continues to skyrocket. what was spend in the georgia race, $50 million.