Quote (InsaneBobb @ May 13 2016 05:58pm)
Huh.
Trump Campaign spending: $47 million.
Clinton Campaign spendin: $227 million.
Trump Campaign: Sealed undeniable primary victory in early May.
Clinton Campaign: "Should win" but still has the possibility to go contested without the help of "superdelegates" who are not representative of voters.
Just like every other candidate? Trump is a dressed up left leaning independent who's candor and willingness to answer any question completely stomped the shit out of the GOP elite. Hillary is a "who the fuck knows" who will do anything her special interests tell her, and will say whatever she believes will get her votes, and has had to fight tooth and nail with a socialist who's never even experienced the private sector, let alone gotten a paycheck from it, spend over four and a half times as much from the athiest independent playing as Republican just to secure a narrow win.
Frankly, most of Trump's campaign HAS been self funded. But given the minimal amount spent by comparison to literally every other candidate who stood in longer than a month? Give the fucking man a medal. Maybe he actually CAN balance our budget and have us paying off some of the national debt that is currently eating up over $200 billion a year in interest payments alone, aye?
Thanks for the howler, my office will love it. "Left-leaning Independent" was my favorite part because of the two-way delusion.
On a serious note, this isn't complicated: Trump knows he's at a huge disadvantage, that's why he flip-flopped on every single finance position he had in less than a week. He said he wouldn't take outside money and he did (the whole time). He said no Super PAC, and not only did he have one but he's got a new one. He said he wouldn't take party money because he was an "outsider," but he's twice now met with the RNC to set up a joint fundraising vehicle; he lied and said it was to help "the party" raise money but that's bullshit, he's doing this to get the RNC to bail him out. He said he wouldn't take big-money, but now he's lining up the GOP's traditional billionaire bankrollers to fund his campaign, starting with the L.A. kickoff on the 25th.
Trump's been sailing on $2 billion of free media, while Clinton's team spent invested their money to build a Battleground juggernaut. The RNC's known that the entire time and now Trump does too: that's why he's begging them and everyone else to bail his ass out. His only prayer is to flip-flop on every position he's ever taken and hope he can accuse Clinton of doing the same, even though it isn't actually true in reality, and that enough voters will believe it in November and stay home so that her invested money won't pay off.