Republican congressional members can't escape the reach of Donald Trump's sociopathic lecherous tendencies and sheer lack of human decency. His tentacles know no bounds, which has left the top GOP Super PACs American Action Network and the Congressional Leadership Fund scrambling to protect the GOP House majority even in areas that never should have been in play to begin with. Politico reports:
They're dropping $500,000 on TV ads in deep-red Utah to protect Rep. Mia Love, whose Mormon-heavy district has recoiled from Trump’s vulgar comments about women. They’re spending another $700,000 in Tucson, Arizona, to protect freshman Rep. Martha McSally, a retired Air Force colonel who has comfortably led her Democratic challenger all year. And they're working to shore up conservative-leaning districts in the Central Valley of California, western Colorado, upstate New York and Michigan.
But beyond these more competitive races, the groups are also shelling out money to candidates that normally wouldn't have even gotten a second look, like three-term Congressman Jeff Denham of California, Colorado Rep. Scott Tipton, New York's Rep. Elise Stefanik, and Michigan incumbent Reps. Tim Walberg and Mike Bishop.
While the GOP groups maintain that many of these cash outlays are simply preemptive, they add up to one word: PANIC. And here's the best line of the piece:
Should Trump stabilize, group officials said they’ll shift their focus back to the most vulnerable lawmakers.
Haha. “Stabilize.” That word doesn’t even exist in Trump's dictionary let alone being a working part of his vocabulary.
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