Thread: Trump raises about $90 million in August

Trump raises about $90 million in August

Wed Sep 7, 2016 2:54pm EDT
By Ginger Gibson | WASHINGTON

Republican Donald Trump raised about $90 million in August in his campaign for the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election against Democrat Hillary Clinton, his campaign said on Wednesday.

The fundraising totals, first reported by Fox News, did not include a breakdown of how much of the total the New York real estate mogul contributed to his own campaign. Trump said at a rally on Tuesday that he himself contributed a lot of the money to his campaign in August.

Clinton, who raised $143 million in the same time period, has consistently outraised Trump, allowing her to spend more widely on expensive television advertisements.

Clinton has also built a vastly larger campaign payroll, spending millions more than Trump to hire staff around the country that will be the backbone of her efforts to get people to turn out and vote.

Trump, a former reality TV star who has never held elected office, has already defied precedent in campaign spending. During the primary, he was outspent by many of his Republican rivals but was able to leverage free media coverage to secure the party's presidential nomination.

But Republican supporters have warned that he may not be able to replicate the winning formula in the general election, when turning out less-engaged voters is a key piece of victory.

Trump did not begin fundraising with intensity until June.

Clinton began August with $58 million, compared to Trump who started the month with $38 million.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...-idUSKCN11D1YK

That's wonderful!! Thank you Trump Supporters!! Thank you very very much!!!!

Trump is slowly gaining momentum, but expect a lot of dirty tricks to appear out of nowhere.

Hillary is basically stonewalling it. I don't believe there are deep underlying causes to her voice failure, but she is carefully avoiding getting it uncovered in the popular media. This is why she is avoiding press conferences---too spontaneous---and getting behind schedule in her speeches. She needs to prep her voice---because it is seriously failing. This would be a PR disaster, regardless of what her mind is actually doing. At a press conference she would be put on the defensive, and her voice cracking and having coughing fits would look horrible.

So she avoids it at all costs. and issues carefully worded smokescreens. The debates could be the place where she really gets fried---but Trump may be too much of a gentleman to push it. Politics is a dirtbag, manipulative, conniving sport. Hillary could get smeared all over the stage under the right kind of pressure.