President Donald Trump is looking to rally support and raise cash for Republican candidates at next week’s midterm “convention,” and attendees hoping for time with Trump will have to pony up some big bucks.
By that measure, Vice President JD Vance is a relative bargain: his roundtable will cost $75,000 per person, and a photo will be $35,000, the newspaper said.
The concept of a “midterm” convention itself is unusual, and some are dubious of holding one at a time when the president himself is so deeply unpopular amid rising prices and a war in Iran that has dragged on for more than six months.
But it’s also unusual in how it’s being run, as just about everything is for sale ― even being an “honorary delegate,” which will cost up to $20,000.
In addition to any money raised by the convention, Trump’s MAGA Inc. super PAC is sitting on a massive $400 million war chest that GOP candidates in tight races hope he will use to bolster their campaigns.
“Our threat level should be up and people are going to have an expectation that you deploy all your resources,” one unnamed GOP donor told the website. “He’s sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars, not doing that. We’re in September.”