After tearing through Michigan and Mississippi Tuesday night, Donald Trump extolled the virtues of a Republican majority on Capitol Hill. It’s important “that our senators and that our congressmen get reelected,” he said.
GOP donors agree. But instead of locking arms with Trump, they’re looking past him — seeing the real estate mogul as a likely general election loser — and instead focusing their energy and money on retaining their firewall on Capitol Hill.
Republican business groups and operatives are going all out to save their majorities in Washington, stepping up fundraising outreach in recent weeks to protect the GOP-controlled Congress. Contributors are responding in kind, forking over piles of money to contain down-ballot collateral damage from a potential Trump nomination.