On the Republican side, 51 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning voters say the party should nominate Trump and 48 percent would prefer someone else.
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2008 lent her campaign $13.2 million and then wrote it off; she did not make a personal loan this time around as she became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
Newly released campaign finance reports show the campaign of presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump raised only a small sum of money throughout May.
The real estate mogul, who has loaned his campaign about $46 million since launching past year, added that he has “a lot of cash” but said that “it would be nice to have some help” from the party.
Mr. Trump on Monday fired his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski who played a lead role in the campaign’s fundraising efforts. The state has been reliably blue in recent elections, but Tim Clark, Trump’s California state director, said the Republican has the potential to tap into GOP voters in the state fed up by politics as usual.
Wealthy Clinton donors also chipped in another $12 million for a super PAC supporting her, while one backing Trump pulled in just over $1 million.
To put those numbers in context, Trump’s campaign ended the month of May with nearly $1.2 million of cash on hand, according to the Trump campaign’s FEC filings.
“I spent $55 million of my own money to win the primaries”.
Many Republicans feel he has squandered the precious weeks since locking up the nomination.
Most of the other pro-Trump groups were not due to file Monday, having either just formed recently or being subject to a different reporting schedule.
The business mogul’s campaign funds are meager and are now dwarfed by presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s financial resources by a staggering degree. In the interviews he talked up his business background and pointed out he spent less than his GOP rivals in the primary process and won.
Yet Trump is attempting to raise $500 million even as he essentially builds a money network from scratch.
Fewer than half of registered voters said they would feel hopeful, while more than a third said they would be proud of a Clinton presidency.
As a general election candidate, he has been raising money from donors and is falling far behind likely Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
The FEC filings also show that Trump raised just over $16,000 from 66 MA donors in May.
“The campaign’s going to pick up the speed”, senior adviser Barry Bennett said. That new agency has already secured billions of dollars in returns for people who have been ripped off. Donald Trump wants to get rid of it…
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“If he can take two steps forward without taking three steps backward, he will bring more donors into the fold”, Malek said.
