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Impeachment backlash fuels record GOP fundraising, massive $61M in bank

The Republican National Committee fundraising juggernaut, fueled by a GOP backlash to the House impeachment effort to force President Trump from office, scored another record in October and pushed the bank account past $61 million.

The debt-free RNC told Secrets exclusively that it brought in $25.3 million in October and has $61.4 million cash on hand.

For perspective, that is nearly triple what it raised in October 2017, the last nonelection October, and the money on hand is the most since 2012.

RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has been setting fundraising records month after month, and when the Trump 2020 campaign effort is included, the GOP team has raised nearly $400 million. In September, it raised over $27 million, another record.

By comparison, the Democratic National Committee was $7 million in debt last month. Officials, however, note that the DNC is competing with over a dozen presidential candidates for donations.

The party credited support for Trump and anger by many Republicans at impeachment. Its anti-impeachment effort called “Stop the Madness” has brought in 75,000 volunteers.

“While Democrats are focused on their sham impeachment charade, Republicans had another record-breaking fundraising month in October — the best off-cycle October in our party’s history,” said McDaniel.

“When you look beyond the Beltway, it’s clear that the American people are sick and tired of the Democrats’ baseless investigations. In 2020, voters will choose results over the Democrats’ polarizing political rhetoric, and the RNC is in the strongest position possible to reelect President Trump and Republicans up-and-down the ballot,” she added.

We'll see how this turns out, but at this point there are very few people outside the three stooges, Markos Moulitsas, and the "opinion pages" of the NYT and WaPo who see this going well for Democrats. Pre-impeachment polling strongly suggests that people were not interested and not willing to change their minds. The ratings suggest that people are not watching. Presidential and horse race polling suggests that the hearings are likely helping Trump more than harming him.

Now we go into stage two of the impeachment hearings, which is to say we are hearing from aids of people who we never heard of who are going to provide hearsay from others we have never heard of. The only real witness appears to be Gordon Sondland who apparently has had about a half dozen phones calls with the President and has already testified in private really nothing that we already do not know.

Liberals will try to make hey with the idea that Sondland believed that Aid was contingent on investigations. This will still not be first hand information (Sondland was providing an opinion of what he believed) and there will be no direct evidence of which investigations were being referred to. Even liberals understand that tying aid to anti-corruption investigations (as previous administrations did) or tying aid to cooperating on our ongoing 2016 election interference probe would be perfectly acceptable (or at least they should understand this).

Their entire argument appears to be an attempt to confuse (and merge) any and all investigations as if they were direct requests to "dig up dirt" and "interfere with the 2020 election". This is 100% a semantic rhetorical argument that really falls short on fact and evidence. But unfortunately for Schiff and gang, focus group tested semantics and rhetoric is all they can muster at this point. For these efforts, they see their political opponents getting rich with donations!