Newt Gingrich yesterday voiced concerns about the Koch brothers’ — whom he called “oligarchs” — influence in politics, particularly their influence over the 2016 GOP presidential candidates. According to Politico:

“You begin to have billionaires who get together, who think that they have somehow got the divine right to tell the country what the country ought to be, which is, I think, dangerous.” When I asked if he was talking about the Koch Brothers – who have pledged as much as $889 million to conservative causes in the 2016 cycle — he said, “yes.” […] “I think it’s dangerous to have the party and the candidates shrink and independent oligarchs rise. I just think it’s a very dangerous pattern.”

And if you think the “oligarch” characterization is hyperbolic, think again: This election, the Kochs plan to spend “more than what the RNC/NRCC/NRSC spent combined in 2012,” according to NBC News.

Put another way: The Kochs will spend between $1.3 Million to $1.4 Million, daily — for the next fifteen months.

Newt’s concerns about the Kochs’ influence over candidates aligns him with another prominent Republican, GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump, who this weekend attacked his fellow Republican presidential candidates for courting the Koch brothers and their wealthy donor network at a Southern California retreat.

Newt and the Donald aren’t the only ones worried about excessive Koch influence — the RNC has for months worried about the Kochs increasing role in the party. And just yesterday the RNC frantically introduced a new voter data tool, seemingly designed to retain any control they can over voter file data, as campaigns increasingly bypass the RNC and flock to the Koch brothers’ own voter file database.

The Koch GOP infiltration is in full swing, and as the RNC continues to panic, prominent Republicans like Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump are starting to raise concerns.

Will any of them be able to do anything about it?