El Trumpo might be triumphing over Ted Cruz prostrating himself before his Orangeness, but his campaign is panicking over the fact that Hillary has $200 million more in campaign funds than they do. And they’re blaming the RNC, of course.
From Politico:
Frustration is growing within Donald Trump’s campaign over the Republican nominee’s yawning money gap with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton — just as the presidential race heads into its final fall stretch.
Trump’s top advisers have held a series of tense conversations in recent days about how to close a fundraising hole that’s grown to over $200 million – a deficit that’s led Trump to essentially cede the TV airwaves to his Democratic rival. The discussions, which were relayed by more than a half-dozen sources, have veered into finger pointing, with some participants pinning the blame on the Republican National Committee or on Steven Mnuchin, Trump’s national finance chairman and a newcomer to the political scene.
Doesn’t this sound exactly like the kind of mismanagement we warned and expected? Trump kept saying he would self-fund, then didn’t, and then said he didn’t need to raise money, and NOW his campaign is panicking because they don’t have money. And of course, he blames an underling for his vices.
The tensions spilled over into a Monday conference call that stretched on for nearly an hour. Roy Bailey, a Dallas insurance executive and longtime GOP fundraiser who is close to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, urged the campaign to reach out to the large number of Republican donors who remain on the sidelines. At no point did Bailey explicitly attack Mnuchin [Trump’s top aide], but three sources on the call said his critique was implicit – and clear: The campaign was failing to take the routine, obvious steps.
What? NO WAY!! No one saw this coming – except nearly every single Trump critic in existence! LOL!!
The rest is worth reading, especially the part about the New Jersey Jets’ owner angrily hanging up on the conference call.
The only way this idiot is competitive in this race is that he’s running against one of the worst candidates any party has ever run in a generation. At this point, if she keeled over and died on election day he might sneak into the Oval with a small margin. Then he can take revenge on anyone who’s ever stood up to him to make up for his daddy not hugging him enough as a child.