With the presidential election just 32 days away, Hillary Clinton is keeping her nose to the grindstone, preparing for the debate, and planning for the final weeks of the campaign. Having oodles of money will let you do so. Clinton’s fundraising has reach historic proportions, allowing her to spend $5 million a day on ads, voter registration and media organizers until Nov. 8. Dream on, Donald Trump.
In-state Democratic operatives are planning for a significant tranche of the money — coming from the $150 million Clinton’s campaign and associated accounts had in the bank to start October — to be added to the previously announced $80 million television investment her team previewed at the start of this final phase, on top of other paid media and a heavily-funded get-out-the-vote push.
Trump, on the other hand, is a little light in the wallet.
...his campaign entered September with $38 million while the Republican National Committee had $40.5 million. Two committees associated with the Trump campaign haven't reported their finances since July.
The overwhelming monetary advantage will allow Clinton to blanket battleground states.
Clinton strategists in target states report being told that the cash hoard is intended to largely service the final three weeks – that means a blitz opening in mid-October, around the time of the final debate. Certainly, a huge large chunk will be spent on operations sooner than that, with senior officials from her national headquarters boarding flights to live out the election in the battlegrounds and targeted get-out-the-vote efforts beginning on a rolling basis, as early-voting opens state by state. (Clinton’s camp is operating with the expectation that over 40 percent of this year’s votes will be cast before November 8.)
But, if past is prelude, Trump will surely find a way to complain that Clinton’s fundraising efforts were rigged or fraudulent, or the Democrats in some way keep voters from donating to his campaign, or a clown-scare keep voters away from the polls, because, you know, it couldn’t possibly be because he wasn’t qualified.
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