[Republican Wildcat]

right now, he is not broke. But if he put up ads now to go toe to toe with Harris matching her dollar for dollar, media outlet for media outlet, would that money be replaced to continue the fight? Harris and the Democrats don’t have that problem - their base continually forks out the cash even for candidates with no chance of winning. they fight to the bitter end...and even after the end even if they get completely trounced and defeated as badly as possible, they continue on just as aggressively as if it never happened. Our side sits back and basks in victory if we win and actually ends up losing ground. It’s been going on ever since I can remember.

[Williams]

Successful republican campaigns sometimes label their opponent over the Summer.
People knew KH was a lightweight leftist. I fear Trump is losing that assumption by going off message and with her media onslaught.
People wouldn’t mind the ads if he just kept articulating the core message.

[dodger]

It’s not the Dem base that is funding. It is the fraudulent ActBlue (RICO) scheme harvesting illegal International cash … Arabs, ChiComs, WEF and all their awful ilk.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Republicans take it as an article of faith that voters are not paying attention until the last three weeks, so they save their ad spending for a major blitz at that time. Makes it hard on the faithful who have to watch the opponents spend early and take a big lead in media polls, but history seems to have proven that - absent an October Surprise - it does work. On voters. Has no effect whatsoever on ballots.

The transformational effect of social media campaigning, however, has yet to be fully analyzed. Trump has many supporters on X - but other major social media sites are turning into Trump-Free Zones.

[Prince of Space]

It’s apparently not her base that keeps her campaign afloat. It’s all the foreign and dark money that’s being laundered via ActBlue using middle class Democrat voters as a conduit, many of whom have no idea that’s being done.