Sen. Josh Hawley raised more than $3 million since January's Capitol riot, a change in fortunes for the Missouri Republican who initially lost some donors for alenco replacement windows his role in challenging the 2020 presidential election results.
In the first quarter of 2019, directly after winning election, Hawley raised just $43,000, Politico said.
Hawley's fundraising totals were similar to those of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, as both lawmakers continue to be aligned with the Trump-wing of the Republican Party and have seen small-dollar donor fundraising success.
Hawley has used his notoriety to pitch ideas that aren't typically in line with the politics of the modern Republican Party, such as an idea to 'trust-bust' big companies.
Sen. Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, has raised $3 million in the first quarter of 2021, raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars in the weeks after the January 6 MAGA riot
Sen. Josh Hawley gives a clinched-first salute to supporters of President Donald Trump who were gathering outside the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6
Later, that mob broke into the Capitol in a violent incident that killed five in the immediate aftermath
It would lower the threshold to prosecute companies using existing federal antitrust laws.
It would require companies that lose federal antitrust lawsuits to 'forfeit all their profits resulting from monopolistic conduct.'
And finally it would empower the Federal Trade Commission to regulate 'dominant digital firms.'
'This country and this government shouldn't be run by a few mega-corporations,' Hawley told Axios.
The GOP 'has got to become the party of trust-busting once again,' he continued.
'You know, that's a part of our history,' Hawley added.
Hawley was speaking about Republican President Teddy Roosevelt, the Progressive-era leader known for breaking up big businesses.
The more recent iteration of the Republican Party has been friendly to big business, however a number of GOP lawmakers have gone to war with the large tech firms, for showing, in their view, an anti-conservative bias.
Hawley's plan goes further than just threatening to break up 'big tech,' Axios points out, noting that its rules applying to mergers extending to banking, health, retail and media.