Every time I write something about how Americans for Prosperity Action (AFP) appears to be wasting money trying to convince people Trump can’t win, the local AFP – which has no control over any of that – gets a heads up. I have friends at AFP-NH, so a big hello (you know who you are).
Anyway, we have continued to get mailers from Americans for Prosperity reminding us that this Trump fellow won’t be able to beat Biden. As a reminder, I don’t think it will be Biden. He wins the nomination, and they pick someone to replace him (he’s old, weak, sick, drops dead – whatever the DNC needs to do). And!, since no one has done anything about election integrity in “swing” states, it hardly matters who anyone is, but let’s not get bogged down in those details. I’m here to do something I rarely do. Share a campaign email beatdown that mentions AFP (Hi, Again!)
I get a lot of emails when we aren’t in the circus cycle. The presidential primary season amps that up. Most of it never sees the light of my day, but once in a while, something pops. This happened to feature a point I’ve been making for a while. It is attributed to 2022 Congressional candidate Karoline Leavitt (who lost to Chris Pappas). I like Karoline, who will likely be notified by a reader that I wrote about her. There’s no escape for wicked bloggers regardless of the spell we cast, and we’re okay with that, but the headline reads “The Koch Network Continues To Light Money On Fire.”
“The Ron DeSantis campaign finally got it right when they bitterly attacked Americans for Prosperity for being a vessel of globalist shills. That’s exactly why AFP backed Ron Desantis in his 2018 and 2022 gubernatorial races.
Everything old is new again. The Republican primary is split between career politicians who are tools of the billionaire class and the one man who delivers for the American people. Americans for Prosperity has already lit millions of dollars on fire this primary only to watch President Donald Trump’s lead grow. No amount of money can break the bond President Trump has with voters. He kept his promises.” — Karoline Leavitt, spokeswoman for Make America Great Again Inc.
I’m not here to advocate for or against any of that except to say that Trump is not beholden to the donor class, and they hate that. They hated it then and now, with almost as much fury as a Uni-Party could. And that AFP is burning money, but it is theirs to burn. They must do what they think is right, like the rest of us.
As for the other two whom we presume AFP-Action finds preferable to the Trumpian Trumpness of The Donald, DeSantis should be embarrassed Nikki Haley is ahead of him in New Hampshire or that he’s not doing better everywhere else where he is in second place but again, Gov Ron is focused on Iowa and Haley in New Hampshire. And neither is anywhere near Trump. Not really. Not anywhere.
So, everyone is burning money, and in a few weeks, that will translate into primary votes, so we’ll see what we see.
