Posted on 09/24/2015 11:14:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Matt Moore
@MattMooreSC
.@realDonaldTrump has officially filed for the @scgop 2016
presidential primary!
5:04 PM - 23 Sep 2015
On Wednesday, Donald Trump filed papers and paid the $40,000 fee to qualify for South Carolina's Republican presidential primary ballot, a spokesperson for Trump's campaign confirms.
The payment — made a week before the September 30 deadline — is the latest sign that the poll frontrunner has no plans of wrapping up his presidential bid anytime soon.
The $40,000 fee to get on the ballot, split between the state election commission and the state GOP, is an unusually expensive one, and the deadline by which it must be paid is unusually early.
As such, it can contribute somewhat to the winnowing of this unusually large Republican field. Rick Perry, for instance, was having trouble coming up with the South Carolina money before he decided to quit the race earlier this month. (Scott Walker did pay the fee in August, but is also now out of the race due to money problems.)
The Republican candidates who have paid the South Carolina fee and qualified for the ballot so far include Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, John Kasich, Carly Fiorina, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum, Bobby Jindal, Lindsey Graham, and Mike Huckabee. Rand Paul will reportedly file next week.
There are no reports yet of Chris Christie, George Pataki, or Jim Gilmore paying the fee. So if you're looking for who might be the next candidate to drop out, it could be one of them.
Has Jeb paid yet?
It says he did.
Disregard. I see he has. According to the article.
no reports yet of Chris Christie, George Pataki, or Jim Gilmore paying the fee. So if you’re looking for who might be the next candidate to drop out, it could be one of them.
If he did,I wonder if it was paid in pesos.
LOL
Or all three.
I wonder if Scott Walker will get a refund? Why is Lindsay paying this fee? He has no support. Maybe he thinks since that’s his home state - he’ll take it. This fee is ridiculous in the first place, and where do those who are polling so low, come up with the money?
Paid in kilos of cocaine, heroin, and American blood.
Pataki and Gilmore have never created enough heat to fill a trial balloon or hot water bottle. The only time Pataki has come close to ‘wannbe startin somethin’, was two weeks ago, when he said straight out that he would never, ever vote for Trump, Signed Agreement to the contrary be damned!
Santorum and Jindal need to have a ‘come to Hay-Zus’ moment with their donors and do the honorable thing. BET: Carson will walk away before Valentines Day. Oh poo! Huckabee has not been able to parlay the Kim Davis Story into any substantial support for his campaign. Maybe he should have accepted that invite to Dancing With The Stars after all! Does The Box Step still count as a dance?
HOly cow that’s extortion.
Probably took forty grand from his sock drawer.
For Trump, who has more money than God, $40,000 is pocket change.
Lindsey Gramnesty said he’d kick Trump’s ass in South Carolina....so let’s see what happens.
Please Donny,
Go down to South Carolina and kick lindsey graham’s girley ass.
More than all the other states combined, by a large margin.
It's the equivalent of a poll tax. Just plain wrong.
[For Trump, who has more money than God, $40,000 is pocket change.]
And that’s just ONE pocket.
Front pocket money.
Money clip #1.
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