Trump has NOT self-funded his campaign, despite his claims. He has been LOANING his campaign money, hoping to pay himself back when (legitimate, not faux Trump-like) billionaires donate to his campaign. The flaw in that strategy is multi-fold:
- Trump supposedly promised to not use superpacs (we'll see how long before he breaks that promise)
- there are individual donation limits to his campaign (hence the popularity of superpacs)
- with Trumps race-baiting statements, many CEO's and companies do not wish to have their names on FEC reports showing donations to a racist, but are willing to hide behind the anonymity of a superpac
The equation does not work.
Also: Trump is not investing in campaign infrastructure (GOTV, etc..) at the state level. Too cheap. He says: 'let the RNC do it.'
What a disaster. No one with a conscience or public image is willing to donate to a losing campaign (this is where the Koch brothers come in - they don't care what the average working American thinks about them.)
The takeaways:
- Trump is using his usual fraudulent business practices to make sure others are on the hook
- Trump is not building a campaign at the voter level, thus denying GOP candidates any support
- Trump (involved in 3,000+ lawsuits) will use lawsuits, bankruptcy and the courts to get out of his election debts, and pin it on those that made the mistake of supporting him (his vendors will surely be screwed, he does that to his vendors regularly anyway)
- After the landslide, Trump will blame everyone else for his loss. And the Mexicans, too, when he loses the Hispanic vote 80-20.
What are your predictions, Menlo Park?
Notes:
Feb: "Over the past three months, Trump funded his campaign with $10.8 million in LOANS and a $100,000 donation, his largest personal investment to date. Supporters also donated $2.6 million, with the most money coming from Florida and California."
Also: "After the Feb. 20 campaign finance deadline, Trump has now poured in over $17.7 million of his own money – that's over 70 percent of the $25.5 million his campaign has raised over the entire cycle. Nearly all of that ($17.5 million) came in the form of loans; meanwhile, none of the other candidates have loaned their campaigns so much as a dime."
Local Precindt results: rather interesting
- La Entrada School - M U R
- DONALD TRUMP - 58
- JOHN R. KASICH - 33
- TED CRUZ - 4
- BEN CARSON - 3
- JIM GILMORE - 0
3 of my neighbors voted for CARSON?!?!?!?
