To say money doesn’t matter (not even a little) is not provable and I think, wrong.
How do you know he wouldn’t be up 5 more if he had hit back on TV at all of her commercials.
He wouldn’t be asking and TAKING money from people like me if money didn’t matter, would he?
Oct. commercials to counteract hers will be important, esp. in swing states.
Or he would send me a letter saying “stop sending us money”
He doesn’t need to be up 5 points right now, save the money for ads a week or so before the election, do a sudden attack. A lot cheaper then running ads now when everyone is on vacation, enjoying the summer and not watching much TV or whatever.
He is asking you to donate, the reason is that it creates a “buy in” into the campaign, a person is more likely to show up and vote and ask others to do so as well if they donated $50 to a campaign then nothing.
The money doesn’t matter, if it did we would have JEB right now rolling over to whatever media attack of the day