Trump Says 'No Reason' to Raise $1 Billion for Campaign

[brooklynite]

Source: Bloomberg

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump distanced himself from his own fundraising estimate of $1 billion, refusing to commit to collecting even half that amount, and saying his campaign didn't need much money to win the White House.

Trump, who has held just two major fundraising events since agreeing three weeks ago to help the party raise cash, said he would rely instead more on his own star power as a former reality-TV personality to earn free media, and has no specific goals for how much money his campaign needs.

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Trump also spoke at length about his controversial real-estate program, Trump University, despite a lengthy statement a day earlier in which he said he did "not intend to comment on this matter any further." He continued to insist that he's been treated unfairly in the case, and pointed to positive reviews of the school. "Another said, 'I went to Harvard and this was better,'" Trump said. He declined say whether he agreed or disagreed with that assessment, adding, "The experience was very good for a lot of people."

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-06-08/trump-says-no-reason-to-raise-1-billion-for-campaign

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The folks here who insist Trump will beat Clinton really need to think about what kind of candidate he's going to be.

[phazed0]

1. Unfortunately, one has nothing to do with the other

"The folks here who insist Trump will beat Clinton really need to think about what kind of candidate he's going to be."

I don't get it. Folks here think Trump has a good chance because of the numbers and empirical evidence.... what people think here will matter not as far as Trump goes - or Hillary for that matter.

While we take jabs at Trump, we need to be resolving some of the serious flaws with Hillary that, IMO, are just as devastating.

Take this as constructive criticism, please.

[leftofcool]

3. Nope. Hillary may have "flaws" but Trump is evil!

Trump has no chance at the Oval Office and we Democrats will see to that.

[phazed0]

13. Like we saw no 2nd Bush in office, then?

[edhopper]

7. Which numbers?

Swing States? Demographics? Electoral College? Total number of votes received?

Hillary wins all those.

[phazed0]

12. Most untrustworthy of any candidate, you forgot that one.

[edhopper]

16. except for Trump's

And Trump still has the highest Unfavorable/Favorable rating of any candidate ever.

So, what numbers again say Trump empirically has a good chance?

[phazed0]

19. Whatever dude, I'm not wasting my time to educate you...

[edhopper]

20. yeah

I'm just a dumb Dem who can understand statistics, polls and math.

[phazed0]

23. Apparently so..

We are obviously talking about the Primaries and not the GE as you say here:

Swing States? Demographics? Electoral College? Total number of votes received?

Do those apply to trump? No, they apply against Sanders... Therefore, I gave another metric in which Sanders beats the pants off of Hillary. You can squirm away changing the basic premise (Primaries/GE) as you go, but that doesn't make you smart.

Total # votes received:

Hillary = 9.36 Million
Trump = 13.3 Million

Can't do math? Maybe so. You do understand that if more people vote for Trump, she loses, right? See what happens when I play dumb and apply stuff to the GE instead of what the OP was blatantly pertaining to?

[ToxMarz]

25. Hillary has over 13 million votes by any reporting I have seen

[phazed0]

26. Welcome to rebut my link then... otherwise post up your source... or Shh

[Agnosticsherbet]

28. From real clear politics popular vote Clinton - 15,729,812 Trump 13,300,472

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/democratic_vote_count.html

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/republican_vote_count.html

[phazed0]

29. Very good!

[ToxMarz]

30. Aren't you pleasant

Clever of you to post an April total from NBC for Clinton and the current numbers from Real Clear Politics for Trump.

[phazed0]

32. You obviously didn't pick up on the part where I said...

" See what happens when I play dumb"

in response to your playing dumb.. which was my point.. keep up.

[edhopper]

31. Wish to retract?

as you are proven wrong

Swing States, Demographics, Total votes, Electoral College, ALL favor Hillary.

[phazed0]

33. Why?

Between Hillary and Bernie.. who wins in favorability? You can change to topic to Hillary vs Trump all you like.. but the original discussion was not that... pivot however you will..

Waiting breathlessly...

[edhopper]

34. Not about Trump vs Hillary??

"Folks here think Trump has a good chance because of the numbers and empirical evidence.."

Between Bernie and Hillary, Hillary won the popular vote "unfavorability" and all. That contest is over.

So What are you talking about?

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. And, he's not doing much for down-ticket gop, either!

[underpants]

6. What happened to his "self-funded" campaign

The whole "I won't be owned by anyone" self-funding thing was BS from the start. He knows better than to spend his own money on this.

[underpants]

4. Phone-in interviews. He's openly admitting what we've all been saying

the media is literally giving him a free ride AND he expects it to continue. WOW!

[geek tragedy]

5. he's not going to be raising anything for the RNC either, but he will lean on them for resources.

the ultimate white elephant

[jmowreader]

15. Orange elephant

I suspect he'll eventually have to raise more than a billion dollars, because he is highly attackable.

[MosheFeingold]

8. Managing Expectations

The only people who hate Trump worse than Democrats are the 60% of Republicans who voted for some other candidate.

He doesn't have the support of committed Conservatives, thinking conservatives, traditional party Republicans, and has royally pissed off the anti-choice and other "family values" type voters who do the grunt work of Republican campaigns. In short, he doesn't have support of the core movement Republicans.

In sum, he has no ability to raise money. He's on his own.

Fox and the Grapes by some old Greek guy whose name I forget describes this well.

[progressoid]

9. I don't think he'll beat her, but it could be close.

There are a lot of low information voters out there that love him. And a lot of other voters that despise her.

[Gothmog]

10. It appears that Trump's fundraising efforts are not going well

[PJMcK]

11. His organization is a shambles

Donald Trump's campaign organization is under-staffed and has not set up its national field offices. They are far behind in their operations. Because of his inexperience, Mr. Trump thinks that he'll be able to wing it once the General Election really gets underway.

In contrast, Hillary Clinton has been building her organization and planning strategies for years. Her fundraising mechanism is sophisticated and well-funded. Coupled with the DNC, her national organization is in place.

As an example of his naiveté, the idea that he'll be able to get the same level of free media coverage that he received during the primary is ludicrous. I think the media gave him a free pass during the Republican primaries because it was good for their ratings and bank accounts. But with the presidential election, Mr. Trump is going to face a tougher set of hurdles and I think he's grossly unprepared for what's coming.

If I'm even partly right, it's all good for our side.

[OnDoutside]

18. Exactly. And it's clear the donors want no part of funding an apparent billionaire who won't spend

his OWN money.

Remember last month he was going to use donations to pay back a $36m campaign loan he made ? I wonder what happened with that ....

[Initech]

14. Tomorrow that estimate will go up to $3 billion. Sunday - $6 billion. Next week - $10 billion.

[JI7]

17. the media reports on anything he does or says

[CanadaexPat]

21. No one thought he could win the nomination.

He's an unprecedented type of candidate. We have no idea how this will play out. It's going to be a roller coaster ride.

[SunSeeker]

22. Smart strategy, Donald. Stick to it!

[BadGimp]

24. Is he TRYING to loose?

eom

[kennetha]

27. Seriously overgeneralizing

Trump assumes that the General election will just be a re-run of the primaries, that what worked in the primaries will also work in the General. He doesn't seem to realize that he has to reach and move a much broader spectrum of voters, that he is not competing against 16 other Republicans, that he is not flying on the radar, is no longer a novelty, not running against a bunch of candidates who will refrain from head-on attacks against him out of fear of alienating his voters who they hoped to inherit once he drop out of the race. I hope he keeps thinking like this, but I can't believe the "wiser" more experienced heads in the Republican party aren't screaming at him behind closed doors about this sort of thing.

[mahina]

35. I finally agree with that orange buffoon about something.

No, Don, you don't need to raise money. Go back to your racist ranting.

[Person 2713]

36. "I went to Harvard, and this was better" (Trump U)

[Native]

37. I love that he was totally incapable of going just one day without talking about the lawsuit.

He's like a freaking toddler.