He will also fund raise to recoup the losses he has during his primary run, eventually.
Some of the money he collects in the General (if he gets that far) will go the reimburse his primary campaign.
Count on it.
The key is to watch where that money comes from down the road, and it will come.
Who will attend those $10,000-a-plate-private-rubber-chicken-circuit fundraisers?
Where will the high dollar speaking engagements be, and in front of what crowd?
Nothing wrong with it, it is done everyday.
To say this is all “self-funding is naïve. It is a “loan” to the “Trump for President” campaign, for now.
He will get all his money back. He didn’t actually spend a cent of his own money on this campaign, he loaned the campaign the money. As I’m sure most of us know, he can use campaign contributions to pay off campaign debt, so he will be able to reimburse himself for every penny he spent in the primary with general election donations.
Exactly. Look, in another life I’ve managed congressional campaigns. That’s how it works. The candidate loans his campaign all the money (usually seed money) and it is repaid on the backend by donors. But candidates like Trump will understandably do this on a grander level with the prospect of repayment increased with a potentially successful campaign.
So yeah, Trump is technically self funding his campaign, but not without financial recourse.