Trump Supporters Keep His Candidacy Afloat with Flood of Donations

[Frodo]

This grassroots support will be the main reason why Donald Trump will remain (for better or worse) the nominee of the Republican Party:

Fueled by Small Donations, Donald Trump Makes Up Major Financial Ground

By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and NICK CORASANITI
AUG. 3, 2016

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[Dr. Arch]

Dear lord. Time to counterbalance with small donations.

[Adam Griffin]

Too late for good data, as the article states. So he'll just throw money at the problem through direct mail and overpriced TV ads. Newsflash: the people who respond to that nonsense are already voting Trump.

[Devout Centrist]

Trump usually inflates his fundraising without accounting for costs.

[Kingpoleon]

Dear lord. Time to counterbalance with small donations.

Do you mean too? Or did you not read the article and realize most of this is from small donations?

[Dr. Arch]

Dear lord. Time to counterbalance with small donations.

Do you mean too? Or did you not read the article and realize most of this is from small donations?

Yep, I meant too because I'm a Hillary supporter as indicated below my avatar. Do you read everything in the most literal way possible?

[Ronnie]

At this point, I'm not sure all the money in the world can win him this election.  And I mean that literally.

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

Dear lord. Time to counterbalance with small donations.

Do you mean too? Or did you not read the article and realize most of this is from small donations?

Yep, I meant too because I'm a Hillary supporter as indicated below my avatar. Do you read everything in the most literal way possible?

This is the first time in my life that I've ever contributed money to a political candidate.  I actually signed up for monthly donations to Hillary.

Speaking of which, shouldn't they be sending me, like, a bumper sticker or something?  At least?  I just get emails asking me to make calls for her.

[Badger]

Trump usually inflates his fundraising without accounting for costs.

[Dr. Arch]

Dear lord. Time to counterbalance with small donations.

Do you mean too? Or did you not read the article and realize most of this is from small donations?

Yep, I meant too because I'm a Hillary supporter as indicated below my avatar. Do you read everything in the most literal way possible?

This is the first time in my life that I've ever contributed money to a political candidate.  I actually signed up for monthly donations to Hillary.

Speaking of which, shouldn't they be sending me, like, a bumper sticker or something?  At least?  I just get emails asking me to make calls for her.

There are "special offers" where you get paraphernalia whenever you donate or sign up for certain things. You gotta keep an eye out though.

[cinyc]

Trump usually inflates his fundraising without accounting for costs.

Please explain exactly how Trump does that.  You are essentially accusing Trump of lying in his FEC filings - or have no basic understanding of how they work.  Receipts are always reported separate from disbursements in FEC filings.  And if Trump and the RNC has $74 million cash-on-hand, their costs weren't all that high, anyway.

[Kingpoleon]

Dear lord. Time to counterbalance with small donations.

Do you mean too? Or did you not read the article and realize most of this is from small donations?

Yep, I meant too because I'm a Hillary supporter as indicated below my avatar. Do you read everything in the most literal way possible?

My apologies. I hope you didn't take my remarks in a tone that you find, like I did. Oh wait. You did pick a tone and assume I was using it, like I did to you.

To be clear, I'm teasing you there.

[Badger]

Trump usually inflates his fundraising without accounting for costs.

Please explain exactly how Trump does that.  You are essentially accusing Trump of lying in his FEC filings - or have no basic understanding of how they work.  Receipts are always reported separate from disbursements in FEC filings.  And if Trump and the RNC has $74 million cash-on-hand, their costs weren't all that high, anyway.

These aren't official FEC filings, cinyc. It was an claim from his campaign, and they've done this before. Could be wrong of course, but if recent history is any indication .....

[cinyc]

Trump usually inflates his fundraising without accounting for costs.

Please explain exactly how Trump does that.  You are essentially accusing Trump of lying in his FEC filings - or have no basic understanding of how they work.  Receipts are always reported separate from disbursements in FEC filings.  And if Trump and the RNC has $74 million cash-on-hand, their costs weren't all that high, anyway.

These aren't official FEC filings, cinyc. It was an claim from his campaign, and they've done this before. Could be wrong of course, but if recent history is any indication .....

Please provide one instance when Trump (or any other candidate, for that matter), lied about the amount of donations they received in a month.  There will be an FEC filing that will verify the amounts received on the 20th.  If a candidate lies about the amount of cash received, they will be caught in a lie.  There is no incentive to lie about something that will become a matter of public record two weeks from now.  It would just make the campaign look stupid if they did so.

[Ebsy]

It's not really lying so much as the big number is misleading. Ben Carson raised a lot of money during the primary, but he spent nearly all of it on direct mail fundraising to raise more money. Trump could be using a similar strategy where he is only really raising a third of the money he is reporting because he spent 2/3 of the money raising it.

[Badger]

It's not really lying so much as the big number is misleading. Ben Carson raised a lot of money during the primary, but he spent nearly all of it on direct mail fundraising to raise more money. Trump could be using a similar strategy where he is only really raising a third of the money he is reporting because he spent 2/3 of the money raising it.

Bingo. We'll see the numbers here.

[cinyc]

It's not really lying so much as the big number is misleading. Ben Carson raised a lot of money during the primary, but he spent nearly all of it on direct mail fundraising to raise more money. Trump could be using a similar strategy where he is only really raising a third of the money he is reporting because he spent 2/3 of the money raising it.

Trump isn't Ben Carson.  He's always been wary of campaign expenditures.  Best I can tell, the actual Trump campaign's cash-on-hand went up by about $17 million from June, more than the actual Clinton campaign's net $14 million increase.  That's despite the actual Trump campaign likely raising much less than the actual Clinton campaign for the month.