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Trump Critics Struggle to Raise Money for Primary Challenge

Associated Press

   MANCHESTER, N.H. - Mark Sanford, the most prominent primary challenger
   to President Donald Trump, has said he won't solicit contributions from
   his longtime donor base until he's ``proven a measure of electoral
   success.''

   Bill Kristol has yet to fully activate a super PAC aimed at hurting
   Trump's reelection chances.
   And Stuart Stevens, the top strategist for Sen. Mitt Romney's 2012
   presidential campaign, until he was prompted, could not recall the name
   of the super PAC he is advising that supports another Trump challenger,
   Bill Weld.
   So far, not even the start of an impeachment inquiry against the
   president has energized the campaigns of those candidates, or aligned
   groups, seeking to deny Trump the Republican presidential nomination.
   Still, outside spending by disenchanted "Never Trump"-type Republicans
   could diminish Trump's 2020 odds by wounding his candidacy even if
   stopping well short of denying him the nomination.
   "For now, the idea that somehow, some way, some seven-figure guy or
   some seven-figure bundler, is going to break from the pack to go
   support one of these guys is just, I don't think realistic," said Reed
   Galen, a former Republican turned independent who worked in the past
   for George W. Bush and John McCain.

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