Ivanka Trump Responds To The Parkland, Florida Shooting With Prayers ... Again

Lee Drutman was quoted about the influence gun lobbyists have on members of Congress in a Bustle article. 

You can browse for yourself on the Open Secrets project which lawmakers have accepted contributions from the NRA. The Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan and nonprofit research group, compiled the data. Coming out on top of the list are House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), followed by Rep. Karen Handel (R-Ga.).

But it isn't exactly money that buys members of Congress, argues Lee Drutman, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan think tank New America Foundation. While he acknowledges the rationale behind thinking that the NRA influences lawmakers with money, Drutman told Vox that there's a bigger power from gun lobbyists that Republicans fear: the ability to mobilize and excite voters in a large turnout.

The way you rise up in Republican politics is by supporting gun rights issues, and you do that because there a lot of Republican voters in the coalition who care very deeply about gun rights.

If that's the case, then it might be another reason why Ivanka won't make any statements that will buck the Republican Party's status quo.