McConnell is telling his senators who are more favorably aligned with President Trump, to push the Trump PAC to spend more on them if Trump wants to see them win in 2022.
President Trump has, and continues to, support all of the MAGA candidates with direct funding , campaign rallies [LINK], and major big donor fundraisers [LINK], including at least one example of excessive funds distributed [LINK].
President Trump has around $100 million in his Super PAC. Meanwhile Ron DeSantis has around $200 million in his PAC, and the Republican party of Florida is doing all the campaign spending so that DeSantis keeps his coffers full for the looming 2024 presidential race.
Mitch McConnell is indirectly nudging Donald Trump to help Republicans try to flip the Senate, part of a broader GOP campaign to get the former president to open up his well-stocked coffers for the rest of the party.
The effort to get Trump to unlock his PAC stash is yet another sign of his seismic effect on the Republican Party.
One Republican senator, granted anonymity to speak candidly about the situation, doubted that Trump would loosen his purse strings even for his own candidates given the long-running tensions between him and Senate Republicans - a sentiment echoed in part by some operatives close to the former president.
"It's not Trump's job to elect a Senate majority," said one Trump world adviser.
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