Lindsey Graham Hits the Panic Button on Republican Fundraising: 'We're Getting Creamed'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

Oct 18th, 2024, 10:34 pm


Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) urged Fox News viewers to donate to Republicans because the party is “getting creamed” in fundraising.

Democrats face a tough Senate map because they must defend several seats in red or purple states. Still, the party has managed to raise more than twice as much money in battleground Senate races. Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris is far outpacing former President Donald Trump when it comes to raising money.

Appearing on Friday’s Hannity, Graham made a plea to viewers to donate to boost the GOP’s chances of retaking the Senate, which Democrats control 51-49.

“The United States Senate needs to have enough Republicans to help this president enact his agenda,” he said. “I don’t want 51. I want more. So, I’m here tonight to give you a wake-up call.”You said every vote counts. Well, every donation counts, too. We’re getting creamed on the Senate when it comes to raising money. Wisconsin, Ohio, and Michigan, our candidates are being out-raised 3-1.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/lindsey-graham-hits-the-panic-button-on-republican-fundraising-were-getting-creamed/

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Amusing choice of words, Lindsey /nt

[Traildogbob]

26. 😆

My first thought. Is that wrong? Lindsay getting creamed!!! I will let myself out. 🤜🤛

[CTyankee]

40. Mine, too.

Damn, I hate being reminded...

[Oopsie Daisy]

48. Ewwwww. (He has zero self-awareness.)

[Lovie777]

2. Where are the billionaires?.....

[Bev54]

34. The billionaires are what is keeping Trump going and his supporters have spent all their money

on his merchandise so nothing left in the coffers.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Well Lindsey, maybe you should have said something to your Leader's

daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, not to funnel so much donor money directly to him and instead have utilized the money for which it was intended: REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGNS.

You HAD the money but you mis-spent it.

[Bev54]

35. When Kamala wins and Trump loses, I hope every media outlet highlight Lindsey's words

about how if they nominate Trump the Republican party will be ruined and they will have deserved it. Every tv Chyron, front page of all news outlets!

[durablend]

4. "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it."

[doc03]

5. If Trump loses who will that little weasel gloom onto next? nt

[verargert]

22. him/itself

[Blue Thing]

30. VANCE nt

[Ocelot II]

38. Whoever seems to be the remaining alpha in the GOP.

Graham is a remora who desperately needs a shark. He'll attach himself to Vance if Vance's political career survives a Trump defeat; otherwise he'll find someone else whose tolerance of him makes him feel important - he's a sad little man who can't fend for himself. McCain had the reputation and the mojo Graham wished he had; when McCain died he attached himself to the new shark, Trump - not because he liked the new shark but because he has always survived on shark shit: Remoras' diets "are composed primarily of host feces." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remora

[GiqueCee]

6. Oh, Lindsey...

... you poor little mealy-mouthed weasel. To quote your own words, "... and we'll deserve it", is probably the only honest thing you ever said in your entire miserable life.

[Zilli]

7. Hey Lindsey, there is a reason "you" are getting "creamed".

Women don't want to be "owned" by repulsive RW men who endlessly lie and create hate and only care about themselves and the acquisition of power and profit. You said it yourself, Lindsey, Your going to louse and you are going to deserve it. I suggest that you try to be truthful and respectful, but it's too late for that. You want enough hate filled votes so that YOUR Senate can enact Project 2025 and completely destroy the country we all grew up in. NO!

[getagrip_already]

8. You arent getting creamed, trump is taking all the money...

All the money being donated is being siphened off for his legal and business use.

[70sEraVet]

18. And Republican voters don't have much money left,.....

after buying tRump sneakers, bibles, nft's, etc.

[Collimator]

21. Hear! Hear!

The people that Graham and company are striving to appeal to with their hateful fear mongering don't usually have the good sense to make wise financial decisions.

[dalton99a]

24. +1

[Marthe48]

9. Democrats and patriots need to be sure that every dollar

donated to Democratic candidates translates into votes. If every dollar raised by Dem candidates represented a vote, then yeah, rwnj are creamed. But money is money and votes are votes. With early voting started, shift to GOTV and get our country across the finish line with a dramatic, indisputable majority!

GOTV!

[Farmer-Rick]

10. They really have no GOTV campaign

Their ground game funding was wiped out and moved into Trump's greedy little hands when he put his daughter-in-law in charge. They even wiped out the funding in battleground states.

They thought Evangelicals and the corporate media would do all the work for them. But volunteer contributions only go so far.

He got Musk to step in and do some kind of contracting on their GOTV. But that's like the blind leading the blind. All Putin pal Musk can do is jump up and down while letting Russia run X.

[eppur_se_muova]

11. mmmm ... Cream of Elephant soup ...

[Traildogbob]

28. 😂😂😂😂

Cream of elephant soup!!!! You win! Oh my belly hurts.

[Botany]

12. FAFO Lindsey. You already called out exactly what is happening.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) once predicted in a tweet, posted more than four years ago, that by nominating Trump to become the Republican candidate and subsequent President of the United States in 2016, the party would "get destroyed" and that its destruction would be well-deserved. Well, here we are.

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I have always wonder what Trump showed you on your Columbus Day golf outing with him in 2017.
You blow job hunting little shit. McCain would be ashamed of you.

[twodogsbarking]

13. Didn't he say the Reps would never win if everyone can vote?

Well, then. Vote.

[Midnight Writer]

14. I've got a great fundraising idea for the GOP, and I will give it to them for free.

Lock Trump up in a tower and tell the MAGAs that God will be calling him home unless they can raise X amount of dollars by a particular date.

It's an old televangelist trick that works wonders with the folks who have been properly indoctrinated.

[shotten99]

15. The Democrats are out raising the Republicans

Trump’s rallies are not what they used to be.
Harris has more momentum and enthusiasm.

But the polls are mixed? Yeah that makes a lot of sense…

[LiberalArkie]

16. People like Lindsey have not realized yet that Republican policies only help very rich people, only some contribute.

Democratic policies benefit all the working people, the corporations, all the medium and small businesses, but not the .5%ers and probably not many 1%ers. Those are the ones who benefit from the Republican policies (mainly tax cuts for the very top income people). The oligarchs more or less.

[mdbl]

17. What's wrong with you South Carolinians?

Why would you vote such a weasel into office?

[Traildogbob]

29. Tim Scott!

Nikki Haley……….they have a preferred type.

[Cheezoholic]

19. Boy, he's awful confident they're going to get 51

Not so fast there Lindseed. I'm on the other side of the fence and say we hold if not gain 1. Once again polls can shove it

[Vinca]

20. It's not just the dollar amounts. Republicans are raising funds from a handful of billionaires.

Kamala has millions of small donors. Each person gets one vote.

[republianmushroom]

23. But, Lindsey, the convicted felons attorneys must be paid. Don't you understand ?

Fleece them some more, dude.

[NoRethugFriends]

31. don't need the gay implies pedophile crap

[mahina]

33. He is a worm and probably in the closet while

Currying favor with anti-gay bigots, BUT being gay is not being a pedophile.

Thanks.

[Walleye]

27. Deal with it, Republican party, American women are just not that into you

[malthaussen]

32. I wish somebody would investigate Mr Graham.

His desperate partisanship, to me, suggests skeletons in his closet. Mind you, I could say that about a number of GOP politicians.

-- Mal

[BumRushDaShow]

36. GA did and

Georgia grand jury recommended charging Lindsey Graham

By Luc Cohen and Jack Queen
September 10, 20233:08 PM EDTUpdated a year ago

(snip)

The special grand jury recommended charges against Graham as well as Georgia's two U.S. senators at the time, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, the report said. Like Trump, all are Republicans.

Graham, a Trump rival turned golf buddy, denied wrongdoing and said he was fulfilling his oversight duties as the top lawmaker on the Senate Judiciary Committee when he asked Georgia officials to examine absentee ballots after Trump's defeat.

"We can't criminalize senators doing their job," he said at a news conference in South Carolina on Friday. "The next election, if I have questions I'll do the same thing." The panel also recommended charges against Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn, adviser Boris Epshteyn and lawyers Lin Wood and Cleta Mitchell, the report showed.

It was unclear why Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis opted not to bring charges against the six people, and her office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

(snip)

https://www.reuters.com/legal/georgia-grand-jury-report-trump-election-interference-be-released-friday-2023-09-08/

Am thinking she probably didn't have the resources to take on the whole "Speech and Debate Clause" excuse that Graham argued and even used with the SCOTUS in order to get them to block the subpoena for him to testify. The SCOTUS fortunately denied any intervention and he did testify for that grand jury.

[malthaussen]

37. Tip of the iceberg.

That's a specific charge on a single instance of wrongdoing. I speculate there's more to it, but then I think that if we really knew what goes on up on the Hill, we'd be appalled. These people are not our friends.

-- Mal

[marble falls]

39. Just waking up, Linday? In two years you'll be out on your ass, too.

[BattleRow]

41. I'm thinking whipped cream.

[Grins]

42. "We're getting creamed...raising money in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Michigan...."

"We’re getting creamed on the Senate when it comes to raising money. Wisconsin, Ohio, and Michigan, our candidates are being out-raised 3-1.”

Not according to The texts and email messages I have been getting - by the score DAILY!!!
From DEMOCRATS!

A dozen every day is usual. And infuriating.

[live love laugh]

43. Nothing Republicans say can be trusted even when it seems advantageous.

[Butterflylady]

44. Lindsey, Lindsey you are getting creamed

Because your party nominee is a FELLON. You all thought it was gonna be a cake walk. 😆

[Godot51]

45. Poor little lindsey...

... he is getting creamed.

Oh where, oh where is my fainting couch?

[oasis]

46. To hell with measly worm Lindsey Graham. nt

[GoodRaisin]

47. Go beg Musk.

Isn’t he the Republican’s money tree?