By Zamboni
Well, folks, ActBlue has raked in more than $100 million since we all learned we'd lost RBG. But they reported that amount three whole hours ago. Can they hit $150 million by the end of today?
Imagine the impact on the Presidential race if all that money were directed to states where it's really cheap to advertise and campaign. States like Kansas, Maine, Alaska and Montana. You could win them all, just with the money raised this weekend. You could probably also throw in Iowa and Mississippi.
So Team Trump will have to recalibrate their calendar. When will they decide to stop throwing good money after bad and start pulling up stakes? They'll probably abandon all but one of the states Hillary carried and which they thought they could flip: Minnesota, New Hampshire, Maine, Nevada, Colorado or New Mexico. Maybe they'll stay in Minnesota or Nevada for appearances' sake. (Buying ad time in Minnesota also buys you western Wisconsin.)
Of the remaining states, Michigan is probably the first one they'll have to cut loose, followed by Arizona or maybe even Pennsylvania.
By mid-October, the vast majority of Trump campaign resources will have to be piled into Florida. Which means it will be a great time for Biden to try to kidnap Ohio and Iowa.
Maybe that's why Trump seemed so tentative at his "show" in North Carolina last night? We figured that after the RBG news, he'd be full of beans. Instead he was speaking plaintively about losing — and Team Biden had a delicious response.
Next up: What all this Democratic money will mean for the Senate races. In the meantime, it's worth noting that the amount of RBG money that's flowed in will vastly exceed the amount that was raised in the wake of Susan Collins's vote for Biff the Rapist, which everyone thought at the time was absolutely yuge. We cats PURR.
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