Trump Campaign Melts Down As They Realize Hillary Clinton Is Beating Them On The Ground

[Stellar]

More: PoliticusUSA

The Trump campaign has melted down just days before the first presidential debate as they are low on cash and realizing that Hillary Clinton is out organizing them and winning on the ground.

The Trump campaign has melted down just days before the first presidential debate as they are low on cash and realizing that Hillary Clinton is out organizing them and winning on the ground.
Politico reported:

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.

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The flare-up comes at a critical juncture in the campaign, as both sides turn their attention to voter turnout. Clinton has used her formidable financial advantage to significantly out-organize Trump, investing seven times the amount of money on TV ads and opening up dozens more swing-state field offices than her Republican opponent.

Winning campaigns aren’t plagued by finger-pointing and infighting. Bitter internal fights ar

[SummerSnow]

1. rofl...

[Stellar]

2. LOL...right on time!

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. They have no idea how to do this

They're losing badly.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. Amateur campaign headed by an amateur. But their followers live in an alternate universe:

Hillary is surrounded by morons. I listen to podcasts from some Obama campaign veterans and all they do is distance themselves from her. They can spot the train wreck from a mile away. Her numbers don’t look good.

18 posted on 2016-09-24, 11:47:07 AM by Helicondelta (Deplorable)

He'll win more Black votes than any Republican in 40 years.

Because he's sincere.

1 posted on 2016-09-03, 7:32:37 PM by Mariner

[awoke_in_2003]

32. She'd have a 30 point lead...

if the media was reporting accurately, instead of carrying him.

[BlueDemKev]

42. Tell me about it!

So called "liberal" media!

[Orsino]

55. Not their fault, really.

Their buffoon of a candidate not only doesn't know how to campaign, he doesn't know how to hire people who do.

But Trump does know how to live off the contributions of the gullible, and so do those he hires.

[Andy823]

4. Well you have to wonder

Just how Trump is making money by using "campaign" money to pay his own business's, could be contributing to his lack of campaign money. Not only is he taking a huge cut of the money, but maybe the donors are wise to him, and don't think it's a great idea to donate to man who is raking in millions off the suckers who are dumb enough to donate to him! The GOP, and his brain dead base, may be stupid enough to let him get away with it, but big donors might not like it.

[Scurrilous]

5. K & R

[Gabi Hayes]

6. hope upon hope this is true, but haven't the polls, except in 04,

when it was stolen in Ohio, been pretty accurate?

lots of ups and downs, and the "trusted" pollsters/aggregators are in a tizzy over what data to believe, so I hope a major meltdown DOES happen, and another course correction at the top is soon to be announced

you can COUNT on that happening if Trump performs miserably on Monday

Please let that happen, to the extent that the media can't cover for him the way they did for Dumbo in 00 and 04

[qazplm]

34. yes but both sides in those elections

had at least a respectable ground game.

This will be the first election in a long time where one side has a significant advantage in ground game...we are about to get an experiment to see just how much a strong advantage in ground game matters or not.

[Gabi Hayes]

36. makes no diff if you controls what story the paperless voting machines tell

IN mid-August [2003], Walden W. O'Dell, the chief executive of Diebold Inc., sat down at his computer to compose a letter inviting 100 wealthy and politically inclined friends to a Republican Party fund-raiser, to be held at his home in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. ''I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year,'' wrote Mr. O'Dell, whose company is based in Canton, Ohio.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/2004votefraud_ohio.html

believe what you will, but he WROTE that......whether it was a sales pitch or a promise to deliver, who knows

the polls (including the exit polls, which type were discontinued after that election, because of their ACCURACY, told a different story)

[GOLGO 13]

7. This & a lot of their side (R) is actively working against CHUMP

I've never seen such disloyalty by the (R) ever displayed. LOL

[Farmgirl1961]

8. I'm so thrilled that the Hillary campaign is ahead of the game

But does anyone know why 538 still lags behind this upward trend? Hillary was at 60.9% yesterday and there's been a very slight downward tick today. If anything, I expected her numbers to continue to rise. Daily Kos drifted down as well. Just puzzled by this.

[Wounded Bear]

9. Try not to focus on daily results...

and especially not hourly ones. It's a marathon, not a sprint. We're just about to finish the first leg with the debate.

Try to relax and enjoy the ride.

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. ROFL

[randome]

10. A 'self-funding billionaire' who is out of cash?

Does anyone get a vague sense of disconnection from this?
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[NewJeffCT]

18. He's being funded by Putin and Russian oligarchs

who own his ass...

Reagan is rolling over in his grave over Trump.

[randome]

21. He can't get a loan in the United States any longer. I hope Clinton brings this up in the debate.

Talk about a failure as a businessman.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[brush]

52. If he was a billionaire he could make up Hillary's 2 hundred million advantage with a check.

To a multi-billionaire, as Trump claims to be, two hundred million would be just a small percentage of his/her wealth so I guess we can reasonably assume Trump is no billionaire.

I mean come on, after two years of fighting off 16 other opponents in debates and primaries and all the physical demands of the campaigns in both the primary and the general stages, and all the money spent (much of it probably siphoned off to his own businesses but still a lot spent on the campaign), you'd think he'd just cough up some dough to not see all the work go to waste because of a lack of funds — if he had it that is.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. His campaign has always been one big Ponzi scheme

as he funnels those "donations" into his own businesses and pocket.

[piechartking]

13. I like PolitcsUSA but

...I just recognize one of their headlines when I see it. It's always a half-step over where it needs to be, in my humble (and probably incorrect) opinion.

[Gore1FL]

17. They are always in grain-of-salt territory.

When I see a story by them I usually google for a more believable take.

[Raine1967]

33. I do as well, in this case, the link was Politco:

A much longer read, but damn, it is a well-researched piece. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/trump-campaign-money-woes-228601

Fundraising reports released this week painted a stark picture: While Clinton had raised $373 million to date, Trump had taken in $165 million.

Particularly concerning for Trump were revelations this week that Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, one of the Republican Party’s biggest donors, had decided to direct just $5 million toward electing the GOP presidential nominee. Adelson, who’d once been expected to invest as much as $100 million in Trump, is instead focusing the vast majority of his political giving on down-ballot races.

In the days since Monday’s call, and Johnson’s abrupt signoff, other members of Trump’s finance circle have been stewing over Bailey’s remarks. Many of them believe they’ve made the best out of a bad situation, pointing out that in the face of ongoing resistance from many of the party’s top donors and lacking the infrastructure of past GOP presidential nominees, they’ve managed to fund a national campaign.

[Gothmog]

54. The Politico article on trump's money woes is a good article

People are leaking details of top secret conversations very early in the process. It is clear that many of the leakers are in CYA mode because they expect trump to lose

[Fast Walker 52]

25. I agree-- I saw another article from them earlier today that was just too good to be true

though this one does sound more accurate, except for the "meltdown" part.

[underpants]

29. I agree. They are like our third tier clickbait website.

I have seen FB posts featuring Eric Trump talking about all their volunteers and truing to recruit new ones.

[radius777]

46. We need fun/tabloidy sites like PoliticusUSA, DailyNewsBin, etc

on our side, as they're some of the few that are pro-Clinton/Obama/mainstream Dem, whereas most such sites are either far left or far right cesspools.

[thesquanderer]

49. When you see those headlines, it's probably Jason Easley. I won't click them anymore. (n/t)

[FuzzyRabbit]

14. Trump is not on TV?

a deficit that’s led Trump to essentially cede the TV airwaves to his Democratic rival.

The TV news for months has been giving Trump millions of dollars of free advertising, and still is. Hillary Clinton is hardly ever mentioned.

[OnDoutside]

15. Didn't the Trump campaign just announce $140m Ad buying campaign in the Swing States ?

[writes3000]

19. That Politico article says Trump campaign only has $50 million in reserves.

Trump will have to cover the other $90 Million.

I'll believe it when I see it here.

[OnDoutside]

20. Yes and Hillary got the best spots at better rates.

[safeinOhio]

26. Chump change for trump

He is a gazillion air.

[Scarsdale]

30. Gingrich

Is still trying to screw over the vendors who worked on his campaign years ago!! It is a republican "thang" I guess. Newticles tried to worm out of paying his bills, and a judge refused his request. His zombie wife may have to pawn some of her Tiffany jewels!!

[Pakid]

39. Yes they did

Given Trump record on paying his bill I think it's a safe bet that he will stiff a lot of people out of a lot of money before he's done.

[nolabear]

16. Not to mention INTO the ground.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. Trump & GOP must be crushed to prevent a Trump 2 or an Ivanka or Jr. Win House, Senate, States. . nt

[Stonepounder]

24. Well, another place to look is at the betting odds.

https://electionbettingodds.com/

Has it at Hillary - 63% Dumpf - 32%

Betfair - https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/#/politics/market/1.107373419

Has it Hillary pays $1.56 Drumph - $2.98

So both have Hillary with a 2:1 advantage over her opponent. Lots of folks putting their money where maybe their mouth ain't.

[unblock]

27. predictwise has hillary at 72%

http://predictwise.com/

looks like a modest arbitrage opportunity, lol

[unblock]

28. oh but he's a b-b-b-billionaire and beholden to no one, he can self-fund

interesting how he always seem oh so rich except whenever he has to prove he's actually got money.

[Scarsdale]

31. Living on borrowed time

He will be in deep doo doo if he loses. His creditors were promised lots of "perks" once he took over the WH. Vlad does not play nice when he is double crossed.

[calimary]

35. Well, fuck! Open your pursestrings, dude! Aren't you supposed to be worth 10 Billion?

Surely you have enough pocket change - enough merely of what falls out of your pocket down between the sofa cushions that you could cover all this, right? Cough it up, Donald. Show us how much you got! Let's see you pull your campaign out of the hole, 'eh? 200 million dollars should be piddly shit to you, right? Because you're so rich, right? That's what you tell everybody, isn't it? Surely you have that much to spare in just simple walking-around money, 'eh, Diamond Jim? Let's see it.

After all, you alone can fix this, right? You've said so yourself!

[sheshe2]

37. Poor Donnie...

Such a great business man, he can't even keep his campaign afloat. Just think what he would do to this Country!

[canetoad]

40. Exactly.

I was just thinking that the kind of campaign the nominees run would be a pretty good indicator of their presidentin' styles.

[JDC]

38. It sure doesn't feel as if Trump has "ceded the airwaves"

[Hekate]

41. Benedict Donald has had a bajillion $ of FREE air-time, most recently an hour with "Dr" Oz.

He's a master of media manipulation.

NOW his campaign is worried? I'll believe that when I see it.

[babylonsister]

43. And then there's this...

whether it happens is anyone's guess.


Trump campaign plans $140 million ad buy

By JULIE BYKOWICZ and JILL COLVIN Associated Press
September 24, 2016 7:59 AM



WASHINGTON

Donald Trump's campaign is planning for what it says will amount to $140 million worth of advertising from now until Election Day.

The total, if executed, would include $100 million in television airtime and $40 million in digital ads, according to senior communications adviser Jason Miller.

The plan represents a new approach for the billionaire businessman, who has repeatedly bragged in recent weeks about how much less he's spent than Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and seemed to rely heavily on free media coverage of his large rallies.

more...

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article103861031.html

[Stellar]

44. I've been reading where Donald had NO ground game...

...in certain states. I really believed he was not trying to win the election. But perhaps with all the free air time that he was getting, he probably figured he didn't need a ground game, with Donald who knows?

[brush]

56. TV air time, either thru ads or thru fawning corporate media is only part of it

If a campaign doesn't have staff and volunteers working everyday doing phone banking, canvassing, voter registration and data entry, etc., you're gonna lose.

Trump's hubris in thinking his strength of personality and ability to charm the free media and the rubes would more than make up for running a stingy "budget" campaign with little ground game is going to bit his ass.

It'll be even more evident after Monday's debate when he comes up against a knowledgeable, seasoned, experienced debater/candidate with real credentials in handling policy question with sound answers instead of bs and bombast.

[tclambert]

45. Good. At this point, it is important to make fun of his flailing campaign.

His supporters won't believe he stank as a businessman, but if they hear how badly he is running his campaign, they grow frustrated with him. How tough and how smart can he be if he lets that woman beat him at the campaign game?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

47. So they just now noticed that they actually need a ground game.

Shows his campaign is being run by complete amateurs.

[nakocal]

48. The media will be out to rescue Trump again

The media will be out to rescue Trump again. The media only cares about profit, they do not care who they kill to get it.

[DinahMoeHum]

50. They have no real ground game. . .

. . .so WTF did they expect??

[Agschmid]

51. I ran into one Trump supporter while canvassing yesterday.

It was someone who has been rabid for him since the primary and made it onto MSNBC at one point.

But that's it... only that one person.

There were tons of us ready to canvass in NH yesterday.

[Gothmog]

53. Trump lacks a ground game and this will hurt