The biggest lesson for America of Judge Moore’s victory this week is that he did it with limited funds. He made it past the first round with less than $500,000. Unheard of in this day and age for a US Senate race. The deep state spent millions on a race that was between two Republicans! The NRA spent almost $1 million in the last week of the race alone!
The campaign of Roy Moore was overwhelmed by a flood of GOP Establishment political cash, but it was not defeated. Millions were squandered in an effort to beat back Moore, but in the end it was the GOP Establishment that was vanquished.
The full accounting of how much money was spent in the attempt to bestow the GOP nomination on Luther Strange will have to wait for weeks, as the campaign finance filings trickle in. But it likely amounted to tens of millions of dollars raised by the Chamber of Commerce, by Mitch McConnell’s political action committees, and by other political vehicles of the Republican political establishment. Read more here.