The Koch brothers have created a ground game where Donald Trump has failed, not to elect Trump but to elect all those Republican senators who won't dump him. See, they're too pure to sully their hands with him, but not so to elect his enablers.
FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. (AP) — To the Republicans in the red "Can't Afford Katie" T-shirts, it's as if Donald Trump doesn't even exist.
These activists have been sprinting through Pennsylvania neighborhoods, talking to people about how bad Democrat Katie McGinty would be as a U.S. senator. Here to help save Republican Sen. Pat Toomey — and, more broadly, the party's control of the Senate — are employees and volunteers for Americans for Prosperity, the best-known group financed by conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch.
Similar scenes are playing out in North Carolina, Florida and Ohio. […]
Four years after spending heavily in a futile effort to prevent President Barack Obama's second term, the Kochs have pushed all of their resources down ballot. And their resources are ample: They're on track to spend about $250 million on policy and politics in the two years leading to Election Day.
They've spent about $42 million of that on TV, and are now pulling all ads to focus their money on door-to-door voter contact, something the Trump campaign isn't doing. They've got about 1,200 employees across 36 states doing the grunt work to make sure the Senate majority remains Koch-friendly. They're using their massive voter database, which has long-since eclipsed the GOP's, to target some 5 million solid Republican voters who might be tempted to sit this election out because of Trump.
That would be disaster for the Kochs. They need their bought Senate, as much as ever.
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