I’m not saying he has one, frankly he doesn’t need one.
When you can get 5-10,000 people to show up in places like Arkansas, Louisiana, South Carolina and 18,000 in Dallas who needs a ground game?
Every other candidate is going to need canvasers, yard signs, bumper stickers etc. to show traction and get results, none of them have the resources to do it after Nevada.
Trump has braggadociously has stated how little money he has spent. Bush spent $2,800 per vote in Iowa.
Cable news can’t go 60 minutes without a Trump story, his personal appearances generate local headlines, A block news stories and full day radio news reports. They sell out, run out of tickets/allocations inside 5 hours. It’s completely unreal.
No amount of money or traditional political campaigning, no matter how skillfully executed and articulated, is going to stand in Trump’s way. The SEC primary was designed to get the GOP nomination locked up, solidify the candidate and allow a unified (And early.) convention to move back the date of matching federal election funds.
It’s over, the political class knows it. The talking heads know it. The candidates know it. The only argument now is by how much and how can they keep the population engaged for the sake of ratings, relevance and political futures.
I am beginning to see that one of Trump’s strategies is to get his opponents to burn their cash at a massive rate while he does not spend any of his. If he can get his opponents to do that while he conserves his they will be at a huge disadvantage in the months to come.
He will bankrupt them. Great approach. Trump understand this whole game operates on cash lots of it. If he can force his opposition to ramp up their burn rate he knows they will go bust. Trump understands this very well.