The interesting thing is that the RNC seems content to always pay the same amount, calculated for interest. This means they have continued building up the warchest since they don't turn any surge of donations into a surge of advertising. An observor might note they now have enough to do a similar, Dean style push while at the same time having enough to defend themselves come the election after.
Political theorizing time: The RNC is setting up to do a Dean Push in 2024. The reason they did not do it in 2016 is due to lack of faith in Trump at the time, and the reason they won't do it in 2020 is faith in him and not wanting to waste the money on a weak opponent.
In the 1570s, the Ottomans nearing the height of their power in simple terms invaded Cyprus and broke their word on a treaty. In response the Catholic powers of chiefly Italy sent a fleet to fight them.
The battle, in no uncertain terms, was a complete fucking rout. The Ottomans got their shit pushed all way in, losing not just their entire fleet but many experienced officers. But the Papal forces fell to infighting over dividing up the bounty of captured ships (many outdated or in poor shape before the battle)and failed to land any forces on Cyprus. In a couple years the Ottoman fleet was back up to strength, the Christians still divided, and Cyrpus still in Ottoman hands until the end of the empire in 1914 (though in the 1870s the British had more-or-less defacto control)
To paraphrase the then-sultan's Vizier
"(They) have cut off my beard with their victory, but I have cut off (their) arm by taking Cyprus. A beard may grow back, an arm never will"*.
Basically the RNC seems to recognize that sacrificing their warchest on a random election won't do them much good. They don't want to shave the DNC's beard, they want to cut off an arm. Most of the DNC gains from 2006 were gone in 4 years - not a lot of mileage for blowing your moneyshot load.
I don't think the RNC is going to go full-court-press to support Trump. The establishment doesn't like it.
Again, the people who are in real power are perfectly happy with the Uniparty system.
* The Vizier was a little optimistic in his projections. While the Ottoman navy was rebuilt, it was never again a major force and used principally as a defensive counter weight, and slowly declined to irrelevance withing 50-100 years afterwards and was never of any real importance again. All future Ottoman invasions were enacted overland, a necessity as Ottoman innovation stagnated (that is, they were running out of peoples to invade and brain-drain). The Ottomans & their successors instead turned to relying increasingly on piracy to keep European christian navies off-balance.
But then who is winning, if the rumors I heard about the DNC trying to shut down any upcoming person interested in politics if they are a white male are true??
Cant' tell if sarcasm posting or not. So
The DNC isn't. Some local/state Democratic orgs have. The National DNC doesn't like "the squad" and wants them gone. Pelosi only completely lost her fucking mind after 2018 when the DNC needed to do SOMETHING to keep their voters from revolting.
The DNC has enacted policies that black-ball consultants who work with challengers in Democratic Primaries after 2018. They are likely to eliminate AOC's congressional district to get rid of her and blame it on Republican gerrymandering. The DNC doesn't want another repeat of the 2018 surprises where long-standing candidates were unseated by other Dems in the primaries, many who didn't put time & prove party loyalty.
Or to put it another way: With the exception of HR director Karen, do you believe any corporation actually gives a shit about how many women are hired? No. What they care about is the perception that they care.