President Trump is taking advantage of the Republican parties that make it a deference that everyone to exercise even greater control over the world of Big-Money Big, which for a long time had been one of the final reductions of Trump’s skepticism of the party.
For years, the Super Pac allies with the Republicans of the Chamber and the Senate have been some of the most powerful and independent feuds in American politics, raising and spending hundreds of millions of dollars in each election.
But just although Trump is in his second mandate and cannot run again, he is quickly bringing them within his sphere of influence, a sign that his dominance over the party could endure to the future.
Both Super PACS, the Congress Leadership Fund and the Senate Leadership Fund, have new leaders this year, and work that never with the White House, reviewing their board of directors and installing Trump veteran strategies in higher positions.
At the same time, the Super Pac, Maga Inc. of Mr. Trump, and his non -profit group Allied have already accumulated approximately $ 400 million since the 2024 elections, according to two people informed about the collection of funds that insisted on the anonymity to discuss the finances of the organization. That sum is not so early in an electoral cycle, especially for a declared president. The Trump Super PAC is expected to play an important role in the mid -period elections, fighting the usual cash flow and the invasion of the traditional domain of the Congress Super PAC.
The changes, both in personnel and financial fire power, are equivalent to a fundamental rearrangement of republican finances, and an extraordinary expansion of the already overwhelming influence of Mr. Trump. Interviews with higher republicans allied with leaders in Capitol Hill reveal private fears about an imbalance of power if the best PAC of the Republican Party are weekly and submissive to Mr. Trump.
The concerns are specular acute in the house, where President Mike Johnson owes his position largely to Mr. Trump. His allies fear not only for his independence, but also because of how this will develop when the president’s revelations and personal agenda disagree with the political priorities of the republican leaders of the cameras, dividing an advantage to the Domborvers.
Some Republicans say that a hand relationship in the hand between Capitol Hill and the White House is simply a good policy, and that bringing Mr. Trump’s allies inside the store is much more strategic than making the president havoc estate from afar. Republican strategists involved in mid -period elections agree that the party must motivate Trump’s supporters to be even when he is not on the electoral ballot.
“The political alignment in the middle of the period is an absolute necessity,” said Josh Holmes, who played a key role that advise the Senate leadership fund when Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky was the majority leader. “I worry much less about what bank account is bigger than alignment.”
An influx or allies of Trump
Large changes in the Congress Leadership Fund are happening, the main external group that works to choose Republicans to the Chamber.
The new president of the Super PAC and his non -profit group Allied, Chris Winkelman, is the solidation team Activey Mr. Trump for collaboration. One of the president’s main advisors in 2024, Chris Lacivita, is now the main advisor of the group in addition to helping Steer Maga Inc.
The House of Representatives is also adding at least three new people to its Board of Directors, including Andy Surabian, a main political advisor of Vice President JD Vance and Donald Trump Jr., and Richard Walters, a main strategist in the duration of the Republican National Committee, the duration of the elderly. Trump’s first mandate and his 2024 campaign. The additions, which also include Matt Brooks, the executive director of the Pro-Trump Republican Jewish coalition, have not been previously informed.
“We are actively collecting these people because they are good in what they do,” Winkelman said in an interview. “This is how a unified government is supposed to be among political professionals.”
Trump’s allies are also coming to the side of the Senate.
The new executive director of the Senate Leadership Fund and his non -profit group Allied, Alex Lattcham, was an official in the Trump 2024 campaign. He said that the group “would work in close collaboration with President Trump to ensure that the Democrats” the radical vision for the United States never becomes a reality. “
The Super PAC Senate is replacing its entire board or directors. It is not clear what the makeup of the Board will be, although its new chair is former Cory Gardner Senator of Colorado, which is close to some important donors. Other members are expected to be allies of Senator John Thune, the new majority leader. A confident of Thune, Johnny Detefano, who served in the first Trump administration, has joined the SLF Board and already serves at the Clf Board.
While the super pac are largely guided, designed not directly, by the leader of the party in each camera, the changes in the joints of the groups are significant for symbolism.
Problem visions ahead
The fact that Mr. Trump’s Super Pac could eclipse those of Congress leaders.
The president, of course, has always played an important role in the races of the low fences, freely supporting 2022 candidates in the middle of the period so that he frustrated some superior republicans. But he was not a great financial factor. The Congress Leadership Fund spent $ 260 million that cycle, and the Senate Leadership Fund spent $ 290 million, while Mr. Trump’s group established only $ 19 million.
Until now, at the beginning of the electoral cycle of 2026, the Republicans say, there are few signs of absolute conflict between the operation of Mr. Trump and those of the Republicans of Capitol Hill. But in private conversations between them, some Republicans say they can see previous problems.
The main concern is whether Maga Inc. begins to spend his war chest against some such as Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, one of the most vulnerable Republican headlines in 2026.
This week, Mr. Tillis announced that he would not support Ed Martin, the Trump candidate for the United States prosecutor for Washington, due to his work defending the rioters who broke into the Capitol in 2021. The measure forced the White House to take out the nomination.
Incentives for Trump, which rewards loyalty and is not prepared for re -election, could easily diverge from the objectives of the Super Pac Senate, which generally tries to support the nominees of Morerate and pursues a main objective of re -elected the headlines, the Republicans sing.
In private conversations, Mr. Winkelman has expressed concern that Trump’s groups overcome their Super Pac, according to three people who have discussed the matter with him.
Mr. Winkelman denied having expressed that feeling. “This is not,” he said in a statement, added that Trump’s team was invested in celebrating most of the camera. “It would be stupid not to welcome more money and more victories,” he said.
Collection of unprecedented funds
Never before is a limited president by term has accumulated so much fundraising power.
The only other president of the second term in the era of the Super PAC that had such a group was President Barack Obama after 2012. But his Super Pac, USA priorities, was effectively inactive for the media 2014.
Trump made a different decision. He has headed at least six fund collectors for Maga Inc. since he was chosen in November, with the price of a seat reaching up to $ 1.5 million for an event with cryptocurrency executives that he attended on Monday in the Washington area.
Much of the money that Mr. Trump is raising comes from anxious corporate interests for better access to it.
Trump’s allies say essential, that is, he is raising money because he can. But it is difficult to ignore that the cash stream coincides with its repeated comments on a third constitutionally prohibited mandate. Magic officials Inc. did not respond to comments requests.
Even some of the people who help him raise money are deprived of confused why doing so is a priority, thinking that Trump is said to be much more aware of the importance of maintaining control or congress than in his first mandate.
Trump now also has the support of the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, who has pointed out that horses to donate ate $ 100 million more to the president’s political operation.
Conference of ‘cannibalization’
Until now, Trump’s political groups have mostly established as they aspire to money. But on Friday, the non -profit arm, ensuring American greatness, Benan buying television ads to promote the president’s fiscal plan.
Some Republicans care about “cannibalization”, or the Senate Super Pac that fight because donors and corporations are sending their limited resources to Trump’s groups.
Mr. Thune is maintaining an aggressive fund increase. This month, the Senate Leadership Fund organized an event of donors outside a Formula 1 race in Miami.
Even so, some candidates, uncomfortable about the new financing panorama, are considering starting their own external groups.
Some people close to Mr. Tillis, for example, are not sure how much financial support will collect from Mr. Thune, especially if Trump chases North Carolina Senator. Mr. Tillis is in the process of establishing his own external groups for the race, according to two people informed about the matter. The measure intends to simply give him more to raise money, but he would also inevitably sacrifice him more financial autonomy.
Jordan Shaw, a strategist from Mr. Tillis, said the campaign had “all the confidence in the world in SLF, Maga Inc. and the entire republican ecosystem.”
Maga Inc. has brought a new notable advisor: Chris Buskirk, who leads an influential donor group called Rockbridge Network and is close to Mr. Vance. His role in the Super PAC, which was not previously reported, could help the vice president to follow the line.
Meanwhile, Mr. Lacivita is not only involved in Maga Inc. and in the Pac Party House. He was recently added to the Data Trust Board, a republican firm, which adds to its overlapping roles that place it in the middle of the billionaire world.
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