Clinton burying Trump: $42 million to $1.3 million

[CPUd]

Clinton burying Trump: $42 million to $1.3 million


Washington (CNN)Donald Trump faces an extraordinary money deficit unheard of in modern presidential politics, entering the month with tens of millions of dollars less than Hillary Clinton.

Clinton's campaign had $42 million in the bank as of May 31, according to its report filed with the Federal Election Commission Monday. Her super PAC Priorities USA has $52 million.

Trump's campaign has $1.3 million.

The gulf emerges as Democrats lay out plans to spend that cash on an onslaught of television advertising that Trump has shown no urgency in matching. Clinton and her allied groups are planning to spend $117 million between Tuesday and Election Day on television -- much of it anti-Trump television -- while Trump and his groups have $700,000 in time awaiting him thus far.

GOP voters rattled by Trump
Trump, who just began actively fundraising last month with a $3.1 million haul, also has a super PAC benefiting him -- but it has only $500,000 in the bank. Two other big-money groups will not be required to disclose their fundraising position until next month.

The New York billionaire can presumably close the money gap with one check, but hasn't indicated he will do so. The candidate and his allies have consistently emphasized the ability to run a leaner campaign than Clinton's.

On Tuesday, Trump appeared to dismiss the fundraising issue, telling NBC's "Today," he's willing to "do what i did in the primaries."

"I spent $55 million of my own money to win the primaries. 55, that's a lot of money by even any standard," Trump said. "I may do that again in the general election."

Trump added that he had "a lot of cash" but added that "it would be nice to have some help from the party."

There is good reason to think the May gap will close substantially: The two remaining pro-Trump groups are expected to announce big hauls next month, and Trump in June launched an aggressive fundraising swing with 10 events in nine days that raised more than $8 million, according to one source. And his joint fundraising agreement with the RNC -- which allows for checks at $450,000 at a time -- was only born in the final days of May.

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Yet Trump is attempting to raise $500 million even as he essentially builds a money network from scratch. And questions persist about whether he will even hit that low target.

That has spawned a new round of frustration from Republican elites and donors, which spilled out Monday with the firing of Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski. Some Republicans have begun to wonder whether they can depose Trump at the convention, with anti-Trump delegates and supporters beginning to publicly organize their efforts.

RNC suffering as well

Yet even more dire is the position of the party: Trump last month began raising money for the Republican National Committee through a joint fundraising agreement.
But despite Trump's promises that money is pouring into the GOP central office, the RNC had only about $20 million cash-on-hand at the end of the month -- $40 million less than the RNC did as of May 2012, when Mitt Romney, a prolific fundraiser, was topping the ticket. And it raised about $20 million less in May 2016 as it did in May 2012.


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The RNC got about $3 million in the first days from the joint Trump Victory account, but much of that cash is earmarked for things like building funds and convention services and cannot be used on Trump's general election campaign. Several prominent Trump allies, including Los Angeles investor Tom Barrack and casino magnate Phil Ruffin, cut six-figure checks to the RNC.

The RNC explained its cash position by pointing to their plans to invest cash early into their ground game, rather than hoarding it for television ads late in the campaign. And the RNC was still in better fundraising shape than the Democratic National Committee, which raised about $12 million last month and had about $9 million on hand.

Several other conservative groups that historically have spent on behalf of the Republican presidential nominee appeared well-funded in Monday's reports, but have said they are not yet comfortable spending their war chest on Trump's campaign and will instead spend down-ballot.

Trump's main group so far, Great America PAC, raised $1.4 million in May, records show. By comparison, Clinton's super PAC, Priorities USA, raised about $12 million, more than it has in any other month. One pro-Trump group that is expected to be the main big-money vehicle though, Rebuilding America Now, has said that it has amassed $32 million in pledges, a sum that would begin to shrink the gap between the two camps.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/20/politics/republicans-cash-crunch-donald-trump/index.html

 

[juleswin]

Sheldon Adelson a real billionaire is spending $100s of millions of money to help elect a candidate election cycles after election cycles. Donald a billionaire running for his own campaign is only spending tens of millions. I mean, does he want to win this or not?

I am sure the liberals are glad they didn't make elections publicly funded

 

[stuntman stoll]

Worked for Jeb Bush... wait...

 

[CPUd]

Here's what the next round of ads will look like in the swing states this month:

 

[jmdrake]

Well if Trump doesn't spent the same amount trying to win the general election that he spent to get the GOP nomination then we know his plan from the beginning was to win the GOP primary for Hillary Clinton. I'll be watching.

 

[Mad Raven]

Sorry to break it to the OP and his Hillary love fest, but Trump doesn't have to spend nearly as much as her if he continues to receive billions of dollars in free advertising. Everything out of his mouth creates a media stir. All Hillary can get attention for is her scandals.

 

[donnay]

Here's what the next round of ads will look like in the swing states this month:

Seriously? You're propping up Hillary?

Hillary has gotten rich by being a thief, a charlatan and a traitor.

 

[CaptUSA]

Sorry to break it to the OP and his Hillary love fest, but Trump doesn't have to spend nearly as much as her if he continues to receive billions of dollars in free advertising. Everything out of his mouth creates a media stir. All Hillary can get attention for is her scandals.

?? How is this a "Hillary love fest"?!

And you've got to realize that his billions of free ads was meant to destroy the GOP primary. That's done. So your "if" isn't going to happen. Oh, they'll give him press and a media stir, but it's not going to be the same thing you saw in the primaries.

 

[AZJoe]

Hillary is in the most big donor pockets, so Vote for Hillary!

Big spending worked so well for Hillary and Giuliani in 2008, and its also why Jeb won the nomination in 2016.

 

[CPUd]

Some of you seem to misunderstand the purpose of the election forums. This is not a Trump or Hillary booster forum, but a place to discuss the 2016 election, particularly its treatment by the press, which I'm afraid does include "MSM propaganda" outlets and messaging from the "other team". If you're looking for an echo chamber of hate, there are plenty of safe spaces where you can go.

 

[donnay]

^^^You're just spreading the propaganda.^^^

 

[moostraks]

Hillary is in the most big donor pockets, so Vote for Hillary!

Big spending worked so well for Hillary and Giuliani in 2008, and its also why Jeb won the nomination in 2016.

“Allies of Mr. Trump say they believe the tide is already turning,” the newspaper noted. Rather than self-funding, “On Tuesday, Mr. Trump will appear at a high-dollar fund-raiser in New York City hosted by some of the most prominent names on Wall Street.”

That’s no surprise, given that he hired a former hedge-fund manager with ties to George Soros and Goldman Sachs to help run his campaign. Still, it’s a huge gamble.

...It’s one thing to prefer Trump to Clinton if you think he’s independent and she’s bought and paid for, but few will prefer him to her if, alongside all his other faults, they also see him as beholden to big donors just like the establishment he is running against. It seems to me that, if he really wants to compete for the White House, substantial self-funding is a no-brainer. Maybe he isn’t nearly as rich as he’s led us to believe...

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics...ump-begging-for-money-as-if-hes-broke/487976/

 

[CPUd]

^^^You're just spreading the propaganda.^^^

Do you not trust the learned members of RPFs enough to know propaganda when they see it?

 

[twomp]

Trump is a billionaire. Time to bust out some of that money. Is he too cheap to make America great again?

 

[Zippyjuan]

Worked for Jeb Bush... wait...

Bush STARTED with like $100 million.

 

[Zippyjuan]

Sorry to break it to the OP and his Hillary love fest, but Trump doesn't have to spend nearly as much as her if he continues to receive billions of dollars in free advertising. Everything out of his mouth creates a media stir. All Hillary can get attention for is her scandals.

You also need "boots on the ground" to work campaigns. Clinton had ten times the paid staff Trump does (70 vs 700). To raise more money, you need to spend more money and he has been reluctant to engage in that. Fundraising by the main candidate also helps/ hurts fundraising "down ticket". When Clinton was doing fundraisers, she was giving a significant chunk to the Democratic Party (off the top of my head but believe that was 90%).

Trump campaign tactics worked in the party primary season where you only had to focus on a couple of states at a time but in the General Election you need to hit a large portion of states at the same time.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/a...nks-fundraising-accords-with-33-state-parties

Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has signed joint fundraising agreements with 33 state Democratic parties, according to a Wednesday filing with the Federal Elections Commission.

The Clinton campaign now has deals in place with the Democratic parties in Florida, Nevada, Ohio, South Carolina, and Texas, among other states and Puerto Rico, to create "victory funds." Contributions to those funds will be divided between the respective state parties and Clinton's primary campaign war chest.

Clinton has stressed that she wants her campaign and candidacy to boost other Democrats all the way down the ticket. Helping channel donors' support for her into state parties is one way to leverage her fundraising power on behalf of other candidates—and to link the success of other Democrats to her own.

The Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee announced a fundraising agreement in late August, making it possible for donors to give to her campaign and to the party's general election fund with one check. Clinton would only benefit from the money if she becomes the Democratic nominee.

 

[jmdrake]

Sorry to break it to the OP and his Hillary love fest, but Trump doesn't have to spend nearly as much as her if he continues to receive billions of dollars in free advertising. Everything out of his mouth creates a media stir. All Hillary can get attention for is her scandals.

Simply creating controversy was great for the primary. Not so much in the general election. Note Trumps betrayal of the 2nd amendment. Do you think he would have taken such a "moderate" position in the GOP primary?

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Before Hillary, Jeb Bush also buried Trump. Still don't understand how did Trump won nomination without spending much money.
But this would be another challenge for Trumpster as SWC Hillary's Wall Streety masters are mostly same who financed DGP and have deep pockets.

Jeb Bush has spent more than $5,000 per vote so far
https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../j...has-spen...The Washington Post
Feb 2, 2016 - Donald Trump. ... Jeb Bush has spent more than $5,000 per vote so far ..... Donald Trump ran a much more cost-effective race in Iowa, ...


Trump: Bush 'wasted' special-interest money but now wants to end ...
www.politico.com/.../donald-trump-jeb-bush-super-pacs-218962
Politico
Feb 8, 2016 - Donald Trump on Monday blasted Jeb Bush for saying he would ... “Now that Bush has wasted $120 million of special interest money on his ...


Jeb Bush Dropping Out: Inside His $150 Million Failure - POLITICO
http://www.politico.com/.../jeb-bush...-to-fail-21366...
Feb 20, 2016 - His closest aides failed to predict Trump and never changed course, ... Jeb Bush, the Republican establishment's last, best hope, began his .... At the time, so much money was rolling in, that situation was hard to imagine.


Wall Street history

http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-35788116

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[Zippyjuan]

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[/INDENT]

If you apply the same donor's list to Ron Paul one would think he was beholden to the Military Industrial Complex. His top donors:

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contrib.php?cycle=2012&id=n00005906

US Army $113,933
US Navy $91,100
US Air Force $88,102
US Dept of Defense $42,500
Google Inc $42,478
Boeing Co $30,724
US Marine Corps $30,708
Microsoft Corp $30,259
IBM Corp $26,998
US Government $26,467
Intel Corp $24,046
Lockheed Martin $23,370
Northrop Grumman $22,684
RagingWire Enterprise Solutions $20,000
Corriente Advisors $20,000
US Dept of Homeland Security $19,984
US Postal Service $19,692
US Dept of Veterans Affairs $17,924
Verizon Communications $17,493
Oracle Corp $17,163

But the also note:

This table lists the top donors to this candidate in the 2012 election cycle. The organizations themselves did not donate , rather the money came from the organizations' PACs, their individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.

 

[RandallFan]

Trump didn't focus on single states. Trump won the primary across multiple regions with moderates on super Tuesdays.

The main reason Cruz couldn't cut his lead.

Super Tuesday 1, Tuesday 2 & the last one before the neocons were buried in Indiana.