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Not only has Trump failed to jump start the needed fund raising, but he's apparently absolutely clueless at how to spend what he does raise. He wants the RNC to come up with the money needed, and he expects them to go along with his cockamamie strategy, lol...
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...on-campaign-money_us_575b3334e4b00f97fba8659d
"One of those wacky ideas was on display Thursday at a fundraising event at New York’s Four Seasons Hotel. At the event, Trump told donors he planned to target solid Democratic states like California, Maryland and New Jersey, according to multiple media reports. None of these states have been remotely close for Republicans since the 1980s, and all three have extremely expensive media markets that would require redirecting large amounts of resources from states that Trump conceivably could win. He did also mention Pennsylvania, a more plausible target. But Pennsylvania notwithstanding, donors aren’t likely to be happy about ponying up money for a campaign that wants to burn it in states that it cannot win. (It should be noted that Trump’s business empire owns and operates golf courses in California, Maryland and New Jersey.)
Trump doesn’t want to piss away money in just these three wildly expensive media markets. He also wants to throw away his money — and the party’s — in the biggest media market: New York. The Empire State has essentially zero chance of voting Republican in the general election, but Trump can’t stay away from promoting himself in his home state, the center of business empire. His campaign has come up with a ****-eyed plan to win the state by playing big in the upstate region by blanketing it with bumper stickers and yard signs. The campaign’s co-chair in New York, Carl Paladino, who is in charge of this effort, was crushed when he ran for governor there on a proto-Trump platform in the Republican wave election year of 2010."
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...on-campaign-money_us_575b3334e4b00f97fba8659d
"One of those wacky ideas was on display Thursday at a fundraising event at New York’s Four Seasons Hotel. At the event, Trump told donors he planned to target solid Democratic states like California, Maryland and New Jersey, according to multiple media reports. None of these states have been remotely close for Republicans since the 1980s, and all three have extremely expensive media markets that would require redirecting large amounts of resources from states that Trump conceivably could win. He did also mention Pennsylvania, a more plausible target. But Pennsylvania notwithstanding, donors aren’t likely to be happy about ponying up money for a campaign that wants to burn it in states that it cannot win. (It should be noted that Trump’s business empire owns and operates golf courses in California, Maryland and New Jersey.)
Trump doesn’t want to piss away money in just these three wildly expensive media markets. He also wants to throw away his money — and the party’s — in the biggest media market: New York. The Empire State has essentially zero chance of voting Republican in the general election, but Trump can’t stay away from promoting himself in his home state, the center of business empire. His campaign has come up with a ****-eyed plan to win the state by playing big in the upstate region by blanketing it with bumper stickers and yard signs. The campaign’s co-chair in New York, Carl Paladino, who is in charge of this effort, was crushed when he ran for governor there on a proto-Trump platform in the Republican wave election year of 2010."
