According to the article, one reason for the lack of money is wealthy donors no longer supporting the Republicans due to the crazy maga stuff. So they can't count on billionaires any more.
In Arizona, the state GOP has just $14,800 left in the bank at the end of August, as reported by the Arizona Mirror.
They should be a lot more broke then that!
Remember the faux election audit in AZ, the one that hired fucking "Cyber Ninjas" to do the work, the company that had zero experience doing so?
Yeah that company was responsible for going over time and budget, grifting $6M from trump donors (good!), but also illegally corralling/storing/examining all of the largest county's voting machines (bad!):
Maricopa County also has sued the state to replace voting machines used in the audit, saying it would cost the county $2.8 million to replace the machines.
Trump has siphoned off all the gop small donors but what is left after that is almost surely being embezzled. Its like russian nesting dolls made of grifters.