Thursday, August 27, 2026

Of the people, by the people, for the people @GOP — as long as you have at least $25,000 to spare

 
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Headline:  The New Republic, 8/25/2026

Hafiz Rashid reports:
The Republican Party’s first-ever midterm convention is quickly becoming a Trump-style grift. 
Puck reports that the National Republican Campaign Committee, which is hosting the September event, is asking for House members to pay a minimum of $25,000 to attend the two-day event in Dallas with a guest, with higher packages costing as much as $100,000. On top of that, the event is taking corporate sponsorship dollars, which are going to a nonprofit that doesn’t have to disclose its donors. [emphasis added]
All this is for a convention that doesn’t include any actual party business, since no candidates are being nominated like in presidential election years. The whole thing appears to have been planned haphazardly, with invitations only going out in the last few weeks to Republican leaders and lawmakers, many of whom have other commitments.

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