Top advisors to President Donald Trump were revealed to have privately boasted to GOP donors last weekend about how two impending decisions from the Supreme Court could bolster Republicans’ chances in the upcoming midterm elections, Axios exclusively reported Tuesday.
According to the report, Chris LaCivita and Tony Fabrizio – two political consultants who manage the president’s fundraising operations – had attended a Republican National Committee retreat in New Orleans, Louisiana. At the event, they were reportedly optimistic over the impending midterm elections, and despite polling that suggests a strong performance from Democrats.
That optimism was due to two impending cases from the Supreme Court, which LaCivita told donors “have the ability to upend the political map,” according to an attendee of the retreat, speaking with Axios on the condition of anonymity.
One of those two cases is Louisiana v. Callais, which may see the conservative-led Supreme Court gut Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, a provision that prohibits racially discriminatory voting policy. Were the Supreme Court to rule Section 2 of the VRA to be unconstitutional, states would be free to draw their congressional maps without considering racial demographics, and arbitrarily split demographics in any manner they choose.
Were Section 2 of the VRA to be gutted, the anti-voter suppression advocacy group Fair Fight projects that Republicans could flip as many as 19 Democrat-held congressional seats.
The other case that gave the two Trump advisors hope for the midterms was National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission, which could see the Supreme Court eliminate federal law that imposes limits on how much money political party committees can spend in coordination with candidates.
Axios reporter Alex Isenstadt wrote that the case is “widely seen as the most consequential campaign finance-related dispute to land before the court since the landmark Citizens United decision in 2010 that lifted restrictions on political spending by corporations.”
“Campaign finance experts predict Republicans would benefit more if the court overturns the law because the GOP relies heavily on billionaire mega-donors such as tech mogul Elon Musk, casino executive Miriam Adelson and hedge fund manager Ken Griffin,” Isenstadt wrote.
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