Ryan does Trump damage control
Source: Politico.com
Even in San Francisco, Paul Ryan can’t escape the shadow of Donald Trump.
In between fundraisers during a West Coast swing this week — including an event with Apple’s Tim Cook — the House speaker made a lunch stop on the city's waterfront, where he tried to sell a crowd of tech executives including Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale and Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman on his work with the Republican Congress. To one person there, though, it went without saying: Ryan was trying to draw a “juxtaposition with Trump.”
But the reality is that Republicans' fundraising has already taken a hit after months of Trump's rhetorical shots — from skewering tech's biggest players to making incendiary comments about women, minorities and immigrants. By the end of May, the National Republican Congressional Committee had pulled in only $79,000 from Silicon Valley-based tech donors, down more than 60 percent from the $211,000 the committee had raised from those donors by the same point in 2012, according to an analysis by Crowdpac, a nonpartisan website that tracks campaign finance.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee has fared about the same, collecting $85,000 in tech donations from the region by May 31, the data show. That’s down nearly 70 percent from the $266,000 the committee raised by this point in 2012 from that group.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/paul-ryan-silicon-valley-225050
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