Posted on 05/29/2016 3:08:01 AM PDT by Pinkbell
Donald Trump's campaign has alerted Senate Republicans that he won't have much money to spend fending off attacks from Hillary Clinton over the next couple months.
The notice came when Paul Manafort, Trump's senior advisor, met with a group of Senate Republican chiefs of staff for lunch last week, sources familiar with the meeting told the Washington Examiner. The admission suggests that Trump will be far more dependent on the GOP brass for money than he has led voters to believe, but it's consistent with his reliance on the Republican National Committee to provide a ground game in battleground states.
"They know that they're not going to have enough money to be on TV in June and probably most of July, until they actually accept the nomination and get RNC funds, so they plan to just use earned media to compete on the airwaves," one GOP source familiar with Manafort's comments told the Examiner.
That's a far cry from Trump's public insistence that he signed a fundraising agreement with the RNC in order to help the party, not himself. "The RNC really wanted to do it, and I want to show good spirit," he said last week. "'Cause I was very happy to continue to go along the way I was."
Still, Trump allies have suggested that the RNC is going to take advantage of the real estate mogul. "I don't think the RNC is 100 percent committed," a GOP donor told CNN. "If Donald Trump's seven points down in October, they're going to put that money toward Senate races and House races."
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If true, go figure the RNC would starve him of funds.
The interesting part is that if he is down in the polls by 7 or more points, the RNC is basically going to give up the Presidential election and just focus on House and Senate races.
——The admission suggests that Trump will be far more dependent on the GOP brass for money than he has led voters to believe, but it’s consistent with his reliance on the Republican National Committee to provide a ground game in battleground states.-——
How silly of his die hard supporters here to believe Trump would never take DC money....and run his campaign only by self funding...
Yes, lots of you did....in post after post after post....
I keep reading how he was going to destroy the GOPe when all along he would eventually have to work with the very people some many here were thinking He would kill off....
He will need every penny the RNC and big donors can pony up to beat cankles....
Methinks this is BS. Trump’s camp is never going to truly leak any potential weakness or state that they are low on cash ever.
Well, based on Trump interviews, when asked about the general if he would self fund, he would always leave it up in the air. He said he would do it for the primaries, but he didn’t know about the general. It sounded to me like he was going to be taking at least some RNC funds.
Why wouldn’t he simply self fund his campaign? Assuming he will certainly get something from the RNC, even if only half of the 1 billion allegedly needed, it seems Trump could if he chose kick in half a billion himself LESS what he gets in small donations from folks like us. Perhaps he would need 2-3 hundred million which I would think he could easily borrow.
That said, the campaign which spends the most is in no way guaranteed a win in any election.
It was a given that Trump wasn’t going to entirely self-fund for the general. He said so repeatedly.
Manafort has said things that have been construed wrong before like about how Trump was going to change going into the general. Trump obviously hasn’t.
The big GOP donors have already flushed about $300 million to defeat Trump, half of that by Low Energy Jeb, who the RNC was ready to anoint as the 2016 candidate before Trump came along.
I never expected Trump to pay for the general election.
Why should he? Trump is the key to the GOP retaining any power at all in DC.
And he already spent $55 million of his own money for the primaries.
When the history of 2016 is finally written, it will be evident that Trump was the best thing to ever have happened to the GOP.
They just don’t know it yet.
Go Trump!
His wealth is in non-liquid assets, not easy to pull hundreds of $millions on demand.
The Donald has a plan regardless of what people think.
Second hand sources about what Manafort discussed? Sound like BS to me.
Trump has always maintained he would be self funded for the primaty and use traditional campaign finance methods for the generak election.
I don’t see anything inconsistent with the RNC running the ground game and Trump financing campaign events. Why? The ground game is for everyone who’s running Republican and is part of their permanent voter data.
Who pays attention to politics during the summer? Just the media and politics groupies (like us I guess).
You can donate to Trump’s campaign at his website. I would rather do that than give to the RNC. Perhaps if the RNC cleans up its act, I will donate to them in the future, but not now, not while their policy is to give the Democrats what they want.
The smart approach is to take donor money, and leave Trump's money as reserve. That way, he's not vulnerable to RNC deciding to stab him in the back by holding up funding at a crucial stage.
They know they’re not going to be on TV unless they get more money? Ridiculous.
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