Amid criticism from fellow Republicans about his tone and provocative statements, Trump suggested over the weekend that he would “just keep funding my own campaign” if GOP leaders did not rally around his candidacy.
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At least five members of the House now have more in their coffers than the Trump campaign, including: Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y., with $3 million; Joe Kennedy, D-Mass., with $2.2 million; Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., and Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., who each report about $1.8 million; and Mike Coffman, R-Colo., with $1.4 million. Trump’s sons Eric and Donald Jr. alone billed $13,000 in flights to the campaign.
Trump, she says, has defrauded his customers and failed to pay his contractors and other partners – including small businesses – what they are owed.
The advantage will enable Mrs Clinton to take on more staff and launch an onslaught of attack adverts against Mr Trump.
Hillary Clinton is thrashing Donald Trump in campaign fundraising, raking in almost nine times as much money as the mogul last month, electoral filings show.
Clinton’s campaign is capitalizing on the financial disparity. But GOP fundraisers have said it has been hard to line up donors to bundle checks from their friends and family. In May 2012, presumptive nominee Mitt Romney and the RNC raised more than $76 million, about quadruple this May’s haul.
The picture for Trump isn’t any better with a wide lens. “They all seem to end at Chapter 11; go figure”, Clinton said, in a jab referring to Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. He has loaned his campaign $46 million since launching past year.
The FEC report shows the campaign now owes Trump $45.7 million, after he lent an additional $2.2 million last month.
Bolstered by more than $40 million in television advertising, Clinton and her Democratic allies are trying to use this period before next month’s Democratic National Convention to disqualify Trump among moderate voters on the economy and prevent him from successfully wooing working-class voters in battleground states like Ohio, Wisconsin and MI.
Donors, he said, are waiting to see a less confrontational, more inclusive and more substantive Trump.
The aide said Clinton was expected to discuss how she expects her campaign to unfold and her agenda. “I may do that again in the general election”. Like Trump, Clinton has garnered high unfavorable numbers throughout the presidential race.
On Tuesday, Trump appeared to dismiss the fundraising issue, telling NBC’s “Today”, he’s willing to “do what i did in the primaries”.
While Trump’s controversial comments have cost his businesses money – for example, the PGA Tour recently announced it would move its World Golf Championship from a Trump course to one in Mexico City – Trump reported in documents filed in May with federal regulators that his revenue had increased by roughly $190 million over the previous 17 months. Since then, Republican supporters have been scrambling to assemble the kind of infrastructure that Clinton has had in place for more than a year.Without a finance team coming out of the primary, you have to start from ground zero. The RNC will help Trump’s effort to get elected, but also helps fund congressional races.
“I said, “Well, you can pray for your leaders” – and I agree with that, pray for everyone – but what you really have to do is pray to get everybody out to vote for one specific person”. Trumps campaign began soliciting money in earnest in late May, starting with an event in California that campaign officials said raised $6 million for a joint fundraising committee that benefited his campaign and Republican Party committees.
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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?”
