When you spend the least and have an amazing voter turnout you are the unprepared one? Trump knows how to handle money is all that it shows.

Obviously not.


And to the second, hasn't it been shown that he's just paying himself back with the donations he receives anyway?

The whole race seems like a parody to me.

I've heard he reached out early on to get establishment support and was rejected which is when he became the "telling it like it is" anti establishment candidate

and yeah he is paying himself back

This post was edited by Beowulf on Apr 21 2016 03:14pm

Yeah he's probably playing himself back with donations, but at least he doesn't beg for them at every turn. Or have backroom meetings with nefarious superPACs.

While I believe that he reached out, since he seems like that type of guy, I don't know if I can believe the secondary part as there is nearly 3 decades of video where he seems to be speaking out in a way that seems quite the "telling like it is" type of speech.

I thought so. Certainly he's the people champ.



Might I ask, how else would you get donations ? Is there public funding of elections?

That he's so rich that he can fund himself doesn't mean he's qualified, merely one of the people that this kind of position seems to be saved for.

This post was edited by Bongmaker on Apr 21 2016 03:21pm

There's a whole lot to consider. I might run a few simulations and see how things would play out under different scenarios. Neither one of them have shown much ability to get votes (above their floors) and the lack of data and infrastructure are really why. Their opponents invested heavily in it: Clinton's built a juggernaut and Cruz has built one of the best data operations in the history of national Republican politics.

Part of the reason you get the sense that Bernie's getting weaker and weaker vs. Trump not dropping as fast is that Bernie has Clinton's fine-tuned infrastructure just picking him apart week after week after week no matter where they go, how much money he brings in, or what the story of the week is. Trump's weathering this storm because he and Cruz are essentially equals, even-money to win the nomination. With the rules that the Democrats play by, once a candidate opens up a lead like Clinton did, if they continue to win delegates like she did they can pretty much make it impossible for the opponent to catch up.



I think you're conflating the overall Republican turnout (all votes cast for all Republican candidates) with Trump's individual turnout. His campaign struggles to perform even the most basic operations related to organizing and turning out voters, and they're not great with the budget either. They've been living off of free media.

If you consider mathematically impossible to get 1237 delegates equal


This post was edited by majorblood on Apr 21 2016 05:20pm

Bernie fans gonna go nuts.

I didn't say it made him more qualified. I just said that he doesn't consistently beg for money. Bernie is spending like it's going out of style and still begging for those small donations.

This post was edited by timmayX on Apr 21 2016 05:23pm

trump wall will become the tears wall



what a lie bullshit

less money, but most of it is coming from his own pocket

http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-35713168





This post was edited by Saucisson6000 on Apr 21 2016 05:26pm