Trump’s new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, echoed Priebus’ optimism, contending that the candidate just had the best week of his campaign, “mostly because he’s able to be himself, the authentic Donald Trump”.
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WASHINGTON (AP) – GOP officials insist presidential nominee Donald Trump is finally hitting his stride and will catch up with Democrat Hillary Clinton by around Labor Day.
Clinton’s campaign reported $38.2 million in disbursements for July, up from $34.5 million in June.
In monthly reports filed Saturday night with the Federal Election Commission, Trump reported raising $36.7 million, his best month of the campaign.
The Latest on the 2016 presidential campaign. The Trump campaign’s first ad buys this month in Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina and OH cost about $4 million, according to NBC News. The joint committees can use higher contribution limits; contributions are distributed among the campaign and national and state Democratic committees.
The group announced earlier this month it planned to go dark in certain markets in Virginia and Colorado, but said at the time that they meant to return to the air on August 16. He’s boasted of holding the line on his campaign spending.
In addition to being ahead of Trump in polls in pivotal states, Clinton has maintained a staff of about 700 for months, opened up offices across the country and already spent $67 million on general election ads. Trump put out his first ads days ago, spending $5 million to air them in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Her campaign has $58.5 million in cash-on-hand, nearly exactly $20 million more than Trump. A senior Trump campaign official, who asked for anonymity because he was not permitted to discuss staffing publicly, said Trump’s campaign had fewer than 200 total staff members at the end of July, about evenly divided between field offices and NY. 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 it also highlights the bind in which Republican leaders find themselves as Trump’s struggles threaten to undermine the party’s Senate and House candidates in November: As dependent as Trump is on their organization, the party is now deeply dependent on Trump’s surging base of small donors to finance it.
Two weeks after campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was ousted, the Trump campaign sent his firm, Green Monster Consulting, another 20,000 dollar (£15,300) cheque. That’s about the same amount it had paid him each month while he was running the campaign.
With the three presidential debates approaching, the Democratic nominee’s team still hasn’t found anyone to play Trump during Clinton’s debate preparations because it’s been so tough to find someone so angry.
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The ad claims Trump told ISIS to “go f*ck themselves” when actually Trump never said the F-word during a rally where he criticized businesses leaving the United States.
