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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump, in Switch, Turns to Republican Party for Fund-Raising Help
so much for that 'self funding' bullshit.....
Donald J. Trump took steps to appropriate much of the Republican National Committees financial and political infrastructure for his presidential campaign on Monday, amid signs that he and the party would lag dangerously behind the Democrats in raising money for the general election.
Mr. Trump, who by the end of March had spent around $40 million of his fortune on the primaries, has said that he may need as much as $1.5 billion for the fall campaign, but that he will seek to raise it from donors rather than continue to self-finance.
But Mr. Trump has no fund-raising apparatus to resort to, no network of prolific bundlers to call upon, and little known experience with the type of marathon, one-on-one serial salesmanship and solicitousness that raising so much money is likely to require even if individuals can contribute up to the current limit of $334,000 at a time to the party. And he has to do it all in six months, with a deeply divided party that is still absorbing the fact that Mr. Trump is its standard-bearer.
No one should underestimate how hard it would be for any nominee to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in a very short period of time, said Mike DuHaime, who was the top strategist for the presidential campaign of Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey.
Mr. Trump, who by the end of March had spent around $40 million of his fortune on the primaries, has said that he may need as much as $1.5 billion for the fall campaign, but that he will seek to raise it from donors rather than continue to self-finance.
But Mr. Trump has no fund-raising apparatus to resort to, no network of prolific bundlers to call upon, and little known experience with the type of marathon, one-on-one serial salesmanship and solicitousness that raising so much money is likely to require even if individuals can contribute up to the current limit of $334,000 at a time to the party. And he has to do it all in six months, with a deeply divided party that is still absorbing the fact that Mr. Trump is its standard-bearer.
No one should underestimate how hard it would be for any nominee to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in a very short period of time, said Mike DuHaime, who was the top strategist for the presidential campaign of Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey.
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Donald Trump, in Switch, Turns to Republican Party for Fund-Raising Help (Original Post)
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May 2016
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Kber
(5,043 posts)1. I might have a tiny violin I could send him
Which would be perfect for his teeny tiny hands!
Nitram
(22,985 posts)2. We should all know by now that everything Trump says is pure and unadulterated BS
He always says whatever he thinks might give him an advantage at that particular moment. that's all.
underpants
(183,071 posts)3. He's been running off donations for months
Initially, yeah, he self funded but he's knows enough not to put his own money in when he doesn't have to.
The Kochs are going to make him dance for them. Rove, likewise, is holding back. Let's see how good of a negotiator Trump is.