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I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

Donald Trump is badly losing in the fundraising race against President Joe Biden.

The latest numbers show that Trump and the RNC have less than half the cash on hand that Biden and the DNC do,

a deep deficit as the general election gets underway.

This is where Christina Bob, the RNC's new election integrity

lawyer, comes in. Do you remember Christina Bob? She was deeply involved in Trump's stop the steel

effort and haplessly defended him for a time against charges that he stashed classified documents

at Mar-a-Lago. Bob's new election integrity role will enable the party to raise

money from the MAGA base in an effort to close that fundraising deficit. Here to discuss this today

is Andrew Eger, a never-trumper and former weekly standard writer who has a great new piece for the

bulwark about Bob that explores why she has become, in a sense, the face of the new mega establishment.

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