At the end of May, Donald Trump’s campaign had $1.3 million compared with $42 million of rival Hillary Clinton, and this huge gap in fundraising is likely to put Trump at a cash disadvantage heading into the general election this fall, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
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In a month where Hillary Clinton raked in $26.4 million, the presumptive GOP nominee raised just $3.1 million-and he has just $1.3 million on hand, according to new FEC filings. Acknowledging the gravity of his political troubles, Trump on Monday fired his top aide and campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski.
“I’m not looking to spend a billion dollars”. “In some respects I get more support from the Democrats than the Republicans”.
“Christianity, I owe so much to it in so many ways, through life, through having incredible children, through so many other things”, he said, noting his great support from religious voters in GOP primaries.
Donald Trump’s decision to fire his embattled campaign manager less than a month before the Republican convention sent a powerful signal to tired GOP leaders that the billionaire businessman recognizes the increasingly dire state of his presidential campaign.
Clinton’s “you can’t trust Trump” tour is still going strong.
The billionaire businessman lent his effort another $2.2 million, bringing his total outlay over the past year to about $46 million.
Many Republicans feel he has squandered the precious weeks since locking up the nomination.
Donors gave Trump’s campaign about $3 million in May, even though he enjoyed presumptive nominee status for nearly the entire month.
Clinton has raised $240 million throughout her campaign, compared to just $17 million for Trump.
Trump responded on Twitter as Clinton delivered her address, writing in one tweet: “How can Hillary run the economy when she can’t even send emails without putting entire nation at risk?”
Connecticut-based Quinnipiac frequently conducts polls in Florida and other battleground states. “We want to keep it lean”. The self-proclaimed billionaire is required by law to account for his spending this way to prevent his companies from making illegal corporate donations to his campaign.
Even $4.7 million the campaign has spent on hats and T-shirts has a tie to Trump.
Members of the new group include former Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. and Faith and Freedom Coalition leader Ralph Reed. Since then, the campaign’s rival factions have been jockeying for power. Manafort, who has long advocated a more scripted approach backed by a larger and more professional campaign apparatus, will be taking full control.
Senior adviser Barry Bennett said that, while there’s never a good time for a campaign shake-up, he’s glad it came ahead of the convention.
But with Trump’s campaign almost broke, he hasn’t booked any advertising to amplify any of those messages in battleground states.
His communications team now consists of a single spokeswoman and he has just about 30 paid staff deployed to battleground states across the country.
Trump’s campaign has struggled in recent days.
Trump set up a fundraising operation for the first time in May.
Trump allies say the tide is already turning, hoping to raise up to US$500 million in joint efforts with the Republican National Committee from June through October.
He’s also facing backlash for heading to Scotland to promote a golf resort later in this week in the midst of one of the most tumultuous stretches of his White House bid. When he campaigns, he often chooses his properties or his own Trump Tower in New York City, which serves as headquarters. She is citing opposition to his candidacy from both 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and liberal Massachusetts Sen.
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The RNC – which Trump says he is counting on to provide much of his general election operations – took in about $13 million last month.
