Trump spent the least during the third quarter
 

Is this a sign of how The Don will conquer our spending issues as President? It might be!

:1orglaugh

I've read a few articles from this writer over the past few months and it's interesting how his tone has been changing. (The Washington Post is on the same political scale as Huff, BTW.)

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Of the major candidates, Trump spent the least. Sure, it's true that some of Trump's low spending has to do with the fact that, unlike anyone else on that chart, he is almost entirely self-funding his campaign. Without the need to hold fundraisers (or employ fundraising consultants) you can keep costs down.

But, even with that caveat, the fact that Trump has spent so little to get SO much is remarkable. He is in first place in every single national and key-early-state poll I have seen and he continues to dominate the conversation about the race. Not only is he dominating the conversation about the race, but he has also started to dictate the terms. Twenty-four hours after Trump floated the idea of skipping the next debate, sponsored by CNBC ? because, among other things, it was too long ? CNBC announced that the debate would run only two hours.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...art/?tid=sm_fb

Trump power!

So much for a self funding campaign.


The celebrity billionaire who has sat atop GOP polls in recent months raised $3.9 million in the latest fundraising quarter, only $100,000 of which came from his own pocket. That's a drastic shift from his springtime fundraising report, when he loaned his campaign nearly all of the $1.9 million it had.

Tampa Bay Online | AP Wires

meanwhile, jeb is out of money and biden's gonna start his campaign $60 million behind.

I don't think that is the reason he has spent so little money. Trump has made so many controversial or outright obnoxious statements -- it's testimony to his free media publicity.

Even free bad publicity is publicity.

'Megalomaniacs for the Trumpster'

Middle class for Mr. Trump :thumbsup

He's spent the least...and it was mostly other people's money.

Trump can't help it if people send Trump money.

People love Trump and Trump loves people!

Take your Trump smears elsewhere.

"Mr. Trump is self-funding his campaign; however there were 73,942 unsolicited donations during this time period with an average contribution of $50.46," a release from his campaign explained on Thursday. "The Trump Campaign will continue to accept small dollar donations as people across the country proudly invest in Mr. Trump's vision to Make America Great Again."

Election 2016: Averse to fundraising, Donald Trump still rakes in millions - CBS News

Trump's gonna be huge for the people.

Trump spends 4 million of other people's money.

Hillary spends 25 million of other people's money.

Even Sanders, the Democratic Socialist that hates any and all forms of capitalism, spent more of other people's money at 11 million.

:thumbsup

The point of Trump's no outside funding policy was that he did not want to owe favors.
These donations do not fall in that category.

Trump power!

sanders is a bad tipper too! bad tipper with other people's money, harumph.

People's president :thumbsup

Yea, he can't help it when he says he is running a self financed campaign and throws a big 'Donate Now' button his website. :1orglaugh

Middle class for the Rich Guy.

Truth is all of them will fuck you over as usual -- so who is the fool?

Why not? Plus being poor or middle income does not mean you are better, smarter. In fact odds are that any given rich guy is smarter than any given middle income guy.
You prefer smarter vs dumber any day in the office.
Also - can't rich guy propose good things for middle class? His tax plan seems just like that.

Pretty irrelevant.

They will not fuck you over the same amount.

Lesser of the evils strategy.

It is not like you would do anyone or yourself a favor without voting at all.

who?????

Yea but you have to admit, just under 5 million is not much of anything for a presidential campaign. Granted it's still early..

Who?? = the voter

I am really tired of voting for the lesser of evils.
Maybe, I'll just write my own name in for President on the ballot -- I'll get one vote and can say 'told you so' for years to come :OD Ludicrous isn't it?

Hopefully, there will be someone worth voting for (IMO) today there is not.

But life is comedy-tragedy anyway.

whom........

It's possible Trump has spent a lot more money than everyone thinks, including Trump. The difference is a lot of his expenses are rolled up into his personal business. Meaning, if Hillary has a bus to tour a state she pays for it out of campaign money, but when Trump flies his helicopter it's a business expense. Same thing with the staff - All of Hillary's staff is on her payroll and is only paid for by campaign donations, where as Trumpy has hundreds of people on staff even if he isn't running for office.

Now you're talking! Do not vote for the "lesser of evils". People doing that is why our country is where it is today.

Use your intelligence and the technology of today to seek out and find a candidate who is worthy of your vote. Whatever your views on issues are...make sure you vote for someone who mirrors them.

If more people were doing what you are now doing, we could straighten out Washinton D.C., and get some people in there who will actually DO what they say.

Federal campaign financing laws require all candidates to disclose all expenditures.

Trump knows exactly how much he has spent.

We will see ... So far I am not really at all encouraged. If I agree 65% with a candidate -- that might be enough to move me. So far the congruence of promised platforms is more like 10% -- I may have to sit this one out ... Blame the majority's choice until 2020 ...

I still plan on voting for dyna mo.

Not only does Finance campaign laws forbid this, the IRS would also be all up his ass if he claimed campaigning as business. Every cent spent on campaigning is accounted for and filed as campaign related costs and expenses. Its not rolled up under his Trump businesses at all.

He is spending less money because he is not spending any money to raise money via fundraisers. And he is getting free air time from all networks and press. He also has run a lean campaign office to date, but those costs will start to ramp up as he builds a bigger presence in the first 3 States to get out the vote.

That's because he's on virtually every major network every single day for free.

And what's funny about it, the media think that if they keep him talking, he'll screw up and they'll get rid of him.

And the result has been, his ratings keep going up.

Go figure.

Hopefully eventually they'll be right.

Otherwise he won't have to advertise much at all.

Trumps a beast. He knows exactly what to spend and when to spend. Smart guy. lol

Turns out Trump is connected to a super pac. Guess he fooled you all....


New ties emerge between Trump operation and super PAC

Trump hasn't fooled me about anything.

according to opensecrets, Trump has received $0 (that's a zero) from that superpac

https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/c...p?id=N00023864

Its early in the game.


Trump continued to insist this week that he has not sought the help of a big-money super PAC.

?I don?t want anybody?s money,? he told supporters again Monday night at a rally in South Carolina. ?They?ve formed all these PACs. People pour money into the PACs. I don?t want ?em, don?t support ?em.?

But there were mounting examples this week of ties between the Make America Great Again PAC and Trump?s political operation.

the connection should certainly be scrutinized, as all candidate's super pacs should be

I heard something the other day saying Trump spent $864,000 on merchandise to give out and that was his only real marketing expense. He throws out hundreds of hats at every rally he holds. Wonder if they are made in the USA?

They are.

Someone made a fake picture and claimed they were from China. It went viral. And because of that, people started researching it and verified that the marketing materials are indeed created in the United States.

So are you saying that Trump rents out his own helicopter to his campaign?

no. he's stating you don't know what you're talking about because you think the Trump presidential campaign gets unaccounted for [free] helicopter rides.

Yeah I figured they would be, would be pretty dumb move to have them made in China or Taiwan. It will be interesting to see what his numbers look like when he starts to do more ads.

So far he hasn't had to spend any money on ads. The media attacking him has given him all the exposure he needed.

And now, with the Republican Party about to launch attack ads against him to the tune of $150 million dollars (hard to believe that a political party is attacking it's own front runner lol)...he probably won't have to spend much on ads at all.

Just let the Republicans spend that money on ads attacking him and then watch his poll numbers rise even higher! lol