The Republican nominee’s constant state of campaign chaos is dulling the impact of stories about Clinton’s emails and allowing her to spend plenty of time raising money behind closed doors.
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Importantly, Trump did not explicitly use the word “legalization”, but sources in the room said they feel it is the direction the campaign is going. The Clinton campaign has $58.5 million cash on hand.
Ahead of their filings, Trump and Clinton announced their July fundraising totals.
Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton campaign buttons are made available at a political rally during Democrats Day at the Illinois State Fair Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016, in Springfield, Ill.
Donald Trump is like a parasite that has been injected into the Republican Party and his candidacy could damage the party’s ability to win elections for the foreseeable future, a U.S. pollster and Republican political strategist has said.
The New York City real estate mogul is also expected to soon began airing TV ads in Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia, hoping to change several negative perceptions of him that have come to dog his candidacy.
Gary Johnson, running on the Libertarian ticket, and Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate, raised $1.6 million and $1 million, respectively, in July.
Trump will plainly struggle to convince many skeptical and frankly disdainful Latino voters that his effort to cozy up to the Hispanic community, much like a similar effort aimed at black voters, isn’t just the result of sliding poll numbers, rather than a warming heart. The campaign paid about $2 million for private jets other than Trump’s own TAG Air, which also collected $500,000. That’s just shy of the $90 million Clinton’s aides said they collected in July for her campaign and fellow Democratic committees.
In late July, Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook was asked by a reporter when Hillary will have a press conference and he laughed nervously before turning over the question to campaign spokesman Brian Fallon. Hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, who contributed $2 million to a pro-Trump super political action committee in July, is an investor in Cambridge. But the $103 million figure isn’t official; the joint committees don’t file reports again until October 15. The campaign ignored the first two and declined the third.
Clinton’s campaign had more than $58 million in the bank, while Priorities USA Action, the main super PAC flanking her bid, boasted almost $39 million on hand.
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The Democratic National Committee also had a blockbuster month, thanks to big-dollar donations that Clinton has helped raise for the party. But the RNC’s strong fundraising lead gave it a larger cash edge heading into August, with $34.5 million in the bank and $7.7 million in debt compared to the DNC’s $10.1 million cash on hand and $4.5 million in debt.
