A major GOP strategy organization recently deleted a campaign poking fun at Bud Light.
The backlash appeared to recede somewhat when the National Republican Congressional Committee deleted a fundraising initiative taking aim at the Bud Light situation. According to a Sunday report from The Daily Beast, the influential group, which works to elect GOP candidates to the House of Representatives, shared and then quietly deleted a campaign using the controversy as a springboard for fundraising.
"Thanks to Dylan Mulvaney, we can all finally admit that Bud Light tastes like water," the group's original tweet read. LGBTQ+ Pride-themed bottles of Bud Light are seen in 2019. Steven Bannon recently weighed in on Republicans seemingly backing away from a boycott of Anheuser-Busch.While the NRCC has not confirmed why the campaign was taken down, as The Daily Beast reported, it is a notable factor that Anheuser-Busch is a significant donor to the group the Republican Party at large, giving nearly $500,000 to the NRCC during the 2022 election cycle.
In a post to the conservative-leaning social media platform, Gettr, Bannon, a far-right media executive and one-time chief strategist to former President
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