Sen. Ted Cruz says GOP has abandoned pro-Trump Republicans, asks Trump help bankroll them

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) said this week he believes GOP leadership has all but abandoned Trump-supporting Republican candidates and suggested the former president should spend some of his fortune helping fill the gap by bankrolling MAGA candidates.

Speaking on his podcast, “Verdict with Ted Cruz,” the controversial Texas senator spoke out about the massive campaign fund Trump has, and put forth the idea that the former president could use some of the millions to help fund the campaigns of MAGA Republicans who have not received funding from the Senate Leadership Fund, led by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

“Trump’s got $100 million and he’s spending almost none of it to support these candidates,” Cruz said. “It would be nice if Trump would spend some of that $100 million to help some of these candidates who Mitch is abandoning because they’re pro-Trump.” 

He added that Trump’s war chest and the Senate Leadership Fund are “the two pockets of money that are there, and right now neither of them are spending in a number of these states. They’re not.”

Trump has spent over $13 million in political ads to assist some candidates in their races, but that pales in comparison to the $71 million the Senate Leadership Fund has spent backing its own candidates. Cruz believes this could be bridged with Trump’s help. 

Cruz also believes Republicans are being hugely outspent by Democrats in those same races. “We’re sending our candidates into fights where they’re being outspent 3-to-1, 5-to-1, 10-to-1,” he said.

While not every GOP candidate is enjoying an overflowing bank account, Republicans seem to have an edge in the polls leading into election week, with most major polling sites predicting Republicans will flip the Senate, and are likely to take control of the House.