Hawley’s Big Haul.
Sen. Hawley parlayed his silly unfounded election fraud claims into a fundraising plea that worked. (Politico)
“Sen. Josh Hawley raised more than $3 million during the first three months of the year, underscoring how the Missouri Republican converted his high-profile opposition to the certification of the 2020 election into big fundraising support.
The freshman senator drew widespread attention for leading the Jan. 6 effort to block the acceptance of the Electoral College results, a controversial stand that liberals and some Republicans claim undermined faith in the political system. But he won plaudits from loyalists of former President Donald Trump, who opened their wallets.”
Sen. Hawley did the wrong thing by trying to undermine American democracy with his 2020 election lies. Unfortunately, the lure of raising millions of dollars in cash to pad his campaign coffers proved too enticing. The damage to America and the public’s trust in our institutions is immense but that never enters the equation for the Trump cultists who cannot wrap their heads around the fact he lost the 2020 election. Senators like Hawley and Cruz have vast swaths of the public convinced of their lies and undoing that damage will be nearly impossible.
