GOP Quietly Backs Off Attacking Bud LightâIts Own Major Donor
âTASTES LIKE WATERâ
The NRCC put out and then swiftly deleted a direct attack on Bud Light, whose parent company donated nearly $500,000 to its candidates in the most recent campaign cycle.
The National Republican Congressional Committee quietly deleted a fundraising page Saturday that took aim at one of its largest donors, the parent company of Bud Light, Anheuser-Busch.
The NRCCâs backpedaling follows conservative calls for a boycott of the beer company after it partnered with transgender TikTok personality Dylan Mulvaney.
On Saturday morning, the powerful committee that provides support to Republican congressional campaigns blasted out a tweet calling for supporters to donate to the NRCC and, in exchange, be given a custom drink koozie.
âThanks to Dylan Mulvaney, we can all finally admit that Bud Light tastes like water,â the NRCC said in a since-deleted tweet that The Daily Beast reviewed and can be seen below. âWith our new koozieâs, you can make sure no one confuses Bud Light with real beer ever again.â
The decision to reverse course is almost certainly a reaction to the reality that the parent company behind Bud Light is a major donor to the groupâand comes after Donald Trump Jr. urged an end to a boycott of the âconservative-leaningâ beer. In the 2022 cycle alone, Anheuser-Busch and its employees gave the NRCC $464,505.
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