“Then there is [McDaniel’s] record on the other big job for the party chairman: bringing in money. Last year saw the RNC’s lowest annual fundraising total in a decade. At the end of January, the Democratic National Committee had nearly three times as much cash on hand.
Meanwhile, many Republican state parties — which have not always been particularly strong players, even in the best of times — have disintegrated into a dysfunctional MAGA-fueled mess.
In the key state of Georgia, for instance, the party has spent more than $1 million on legal fees, largely to defend fake electors, including the party chairman, from criminal charges. In Arizona, another state that Republicans must win in November, the chairman stepped down after the leak of an audio tape in which he appeared to be offering a bribe to get 2022 gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake out of the Senate race. In Michigan, an ongoing power struggle has seen the new chairman locked out of the state party’s servers.”
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