An $88,600 Photo With Trump: GOP Hopes to Raise Millions During Convention
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WASHINGTON—Republicans are planning to raise millions of dollars during the coming GOP midterm convention in Dallas , including asking donors to pay more than $88,000 for a photo with President Trump.
The Republican National Committee sent out invitations this week to a pair of fundraising events during the convention. A roundtable with Trump on Sept. 9 will cost $250,000 a person to attend, according to the invitation, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Donors can also take a photo with the president for $88,600.
A second roundtable featuring Vice President JD Vance on Sept. 10 will cost $75,000 per person. Similar to Trump’s event, donors can separately select to take a photo with Vance at the event for $35,000, according to the invitation.
An RNC spokesman didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
It is rare for a party to hold a midterm convention, but Republicans are betting that the event will boost their prospects heading into a midterm election in which they face the prospect of losing control of Congress. Both Vance and Trump are scheduled to deliver keynote addresses at the two-day convention.
The president has said that he will campaign in support of Republican candidates this fall, but he has also acknowledged that midterm elections typically don’t favor the party in power.
“When you’re president, whether you’re a Republican or Democrat or whether you’re a good president or a bad president, you lose the midterms, nobody knows why,” Trump said in an interview over the weekend with former Rep. Trey Gowdy. “Some people like me more than they like the party.”
The president attended another RNC fundraiser last week in Texas, where Republicans are hoping he will help their Senate candidate, State Attorney General Ken Paxton. His Democratic opponent, James Talarico, has raised $68 million from both big and small donors, dwarfing Paxton’s $9 million. Race raters at Fox News, Cook Political Report and the Center for Politics all recently have moved the contest from leaning Republican to a tossup.
Trump has proved to be a prolific fundraiser for his party. MAGA Inc., a super PAC aligned with the president, has more than $400 million cash on hand ahead of the midterm elections. MAGA Inc. has yet to preview which battleground states the super PAC will focus on.
The group recently spent more than $800,000 to boost Sen. Darline Graham in last week’s South Carolina runoff election , the first time the group has spent money on a race in months. Graham won the runoff.
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Photo with Donald: 88,600$
Photo with JD: 35,000$
Photo with Ken Paxton: free
camera catching on fire - priceless
I'd pay $88 to watch him do a header out of the doorway of pimp jet 1 onto the tarmac ...
roundtable seat with Donald: $250,000
equivalent # of meals to feed the poor: 2.5m
I wouldn't take $88,600 to take a photo with that piece of shit
It's clear there are millions of conservatives who sold him their souls for a lot less. But the joke will one day be on Trump when he goes to check on those souls he's harvested and just finds a giant bag of dicks.
MAGA grassroots politics in action. /s
further down the donation menu, natalie is selling trump's used diapers sealed in a 1 gallon ziplock baggie signed by trump, postage extra ...
that's disgusting!