GOP Triage Continues Apace

Trump's a liar and a fraud. If you took a nap for a decade, watch the video above would help you understand what he's all about. Will that hurt the Republicans' chances next month? Maybe... but there are plenty of other things that should do that as well. As we've been reporting, the GOP has continued pulling the plug on their own incumbents, leaving them on the side of the road to die alone-- well, not quite along... there are dozens of Republican non-incumbent candidates to keep them company. Once-prominent recruits like Diane Harkey (CA-49), Janice Arnold-Jones (NM), Jay Webber (NJ), Pearl Kim (PA), Greg McCauley (PA), Marty Nothstein (PA), Lena Epstein (MI), Steve Watkins (KS) and Lea Marquez-Peterson (AZ) have all been written off. The latest incumbent to be told the party's over was Kevin Yoder in Kansas City, whose race is still rated a toss-up but who Paul Ryan judges a waste of resources anyway.

Before Yoder, other Republicans who were told their careers in the House were done included Barbara Comstock (VA), Mike Coffman (CO), Mike Bishop (MI), Rod Blum (IA), Erik Paulsen (MN), Chris Collins (NY), Jason Lewis (MN) and Keith Rothfus (PA). After Yoder, likely next victims include Leonard Lance (NJ), Duncan Hunter (CA), Jeff Denham (CA), Dana Rohrabacher (CA), Dave Young (IA), Carlos Curbelo (FL) Claudia Tenney (NY), Steve Knight (CA), Mimi Walters (CA), Bruce Poliquin (ME), Dave Brat (VA), John Faso (NY) and Andy Barr (KY). It appears that Ryan has also given up on all the open red seats in Pennsylvania.

Meanwhile, yesterday Bloomberg News reported that Democratic House Candidates Are Seeing ‘Unprecedented’ Fundraising. Ben Ray Lujan told them that 60 Democrats raised more than $1 million each, half of whom had raised more than $2 million each and eight more than $2 million. Embarrassingly for Lujan, one of the three Democrats who raised over $3 million was Devin Nunes opponent Andrew Janz, who the DCCC doesn't even support.