I don’t have a cite yet aside from Twitter (although all the political class is chattering about it) but the new FEC reports show that Trump entered June with $1.3mil cash on hand versus Clinton’s $42mil.
If Trump is relying on the RNC to do the heavy lifting, they reported taking in $11m in May versus $34m in May 2012.
As someone wryly noted, Ben Carson’s campaign ($1.7m cash on hand) is currently better funded than Trump’s.
Edit: Ah, here we go.
News like that make me honestly wonder. On one hand, if he stays in, he’ll run out of money sooner rather than later, which undercuts his image as a successful businessman, which is most of his livelihood. On the other hand, withdrawing before that does the same thing, unless he came up with an excuse everyone would buy, and I can’t think of one.
“The voters were very unfair to me. Okay? They’re unfair.”
“You know, I got into this race for one reason: to defend our borders. Our borders need defending, okay? I was talking about this when nobody else was talking about this. It’s why I beat all of those other candidates, and I beat them bad. Now, I’d probably beat Hillary – I would love to beat Hillary – but there’s a small, a very small chance that she wins, and then who knows about the borders? And the Republicans, they want me to step aside, they want someone else to run instead. So I say: you know what? I say, if both candidates will pledge to build the wall, to build a great wall, along our border with Mexico; and to stop all immigration by Muslims, I’ll drop out of the race right now.”
If they go for it, can he declare victory while saying he was right all along?
This’ll all end in withdrawal for ‘unspecified health reasons’. The backroom machinations will be spectacular.
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I don’t have a cite yet aside from Twitter (although all the political class is chattering about it) but the new FEC reports show that Trump entered June with $1.3mil cash on hand versus Clinton’s $42mil.
If Trump is relying on the RNC to do the heavy lifting, they reported taking in $11m in May versus $34m in May 2012.
As someone wryly noted, Ben Carson’s campaign ($1.7m cash on hand) is currently better funded than Trump’s.
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This is like the political version of that dream where you show up for class with no pants on, and everyone’s laughing at you and you wonder how the fuck you got here, but there’s no time to go home and you can’t find anything to cover yourself up with.
This guy has been in the news a few times.
Daily Mail did a write up on him back in April.
Impossible. Trump has the best health. His doctors - they’re geniuses, you wouldn’t believe how great they are - they always say “Stop being so healthy, Mr. Trump, you’re putting us out of business!”
If I recall correctly, his doctor (or at least a doctor willing to write on campaign letterhead) has said that he would, in fact, be the healthiest president ever elected in the history of the United States.
That’s kind of a silly question. For one thing, Manafort has been working campaigns since Lewadowski has been in diapers including 6 presidential campaigns.
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It’s not a silly question. For those of us who don’t know a lot about political backrooms in the US, it’s a perfectly sensible question.
I can’t believe no-one has said this:
Trump to Lewandoski: “Corey, you’re fired!”
'Cause everyone know that’s how you deal with someone you fire, right? Just can’t trust them so you just have to call in security. Look, it’s the way things work in business!
And of course, you don’t let the peons in your organization know what’s going on:
And the blood-letting didn’t stop there:
Trump’s eldest daugher suspected Caputo of being aligned with Tyrion Lannister. Really, he’s lucky to get out alive.
The Trump Campaign is Game of Thrones with fewer nude scenes?
Somebody followed the money. Guess where it’s going?
What a shock.
Or maybe his plan was to enrich himself with campaign donations? Trump’s business style has always been to go in, get the money and leave the shrivelled husk of a business behind if necessary. No surprise he’s treating his campaign the same way.
The less he spends on his actual campaign, the more he gets to keep.
The Trump campaign has less cash on hand than the Ben Carson campaign.
Does Trump do or say anything that Trump doesn’t want to do or say? I seriously doubt that Lewandowski made Trump act like a buffoon – Trump is who he is. The comments about a Mexican judge is all about Trump himself, not his campaign manager. I suspect the larger disagreement is how to manage the campaign itself, about where to campaign, how to raise money, how to win support among conservatives, etc. And this is where Manafort is probably going to make a difference – if it’s not already too late. The only thing Trump has going for him is that Hillary is not well liked herself, but she’s raising a shit load of cash and her party is mostly behind her. Trump, by contrast, now has a party in almost open revolt against him.
Trump can’t even run his own campaign…and yet people believe he’s ready to be the next president of the United States.:rolleyes:
Once Trump taps Carson for VP, he’ll have twice the war chest!
Or maybe those are “in kind” contributions. Remember the story earlier about how Hillary was drawing a $250k salary from the campaign?
http://freebeacon.com/politics/hillary-paid-herself-250000-from-campaign-funds/
So don’t be too sure that you’ve found a smoking gun here.
“This very serious threat came, a very serious threat, the most serious threat. The Secret Service said it was the biggest threat any candidate had ever received. I said it doesn’t matter how serious the threat, look, I’m not going to be scared, but it wasn’t a threat against me, it was against my beautiful wife, my beautiful wife who is the most beautiful and would be the most beautiful First Lady in the world she’s so beautiful, and this threat was the biggest threat against her…”
Not saying “everyone would buy” that, but some would. And she probably does receive horrific threats.