Trump Stops Fundraising for Down Ticket Races
Why would he do that? Because he does not care about conservative policies or maintaining a GOP majority in Congress. He cares about one thing on this Earth, and one thing only: Donald Trump.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has no further high-dollar fundraising events planned for the remainder of the campaign, dealing another serious blow to the GOP’s effort to finance its get-out-the-vote operation before Election Day.
Steven Mnuchin, Trump’s national finance chairman, said in an interview with The Washington Post on Tuesday that Trump Victory, a joint fundraising committee between the party and the campaign, held its last formal fundraiser on Oct. 19. The luncheon was in Las Vegas on the day of the final presidential debate.
“We’ve kind of wound down,” Mnuchin said, referring to formal fundraisers. “But the online fundraising continues to be strong.”
While Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is headlining her last fundraiser Tuesday night in Miami, her campaign has scheduled 41 other events between now and Nov. 3 featuring high-profile surrogates such as her daughter, Chelsea, running mate Tim Kaine and the entertainer Cher, according to a schedule sent to donors this weekend.
Trump’s campaign is continuing to bring in donations that will boost the party, but the lack of a formal fundraising schedule effectively turns off one of the main spigots to the Republican National Committee. The national party collected $40 million through Trump Victory as of Sept. 30. The RNC has relied on the funds to help pay for hundreds of field staffers deployed across the country as part of its national ground operation, which is working to turn out voters to support the entire Republican ticket.
Trump is not just a bad candidate. He is an enemy of classical liberal principles.
I had his number early on and I was right. Everyone else whose opinion matters will catch up eventually. It will take some longer than others. But you’ll get there one day.
UPDATE: An update to Allahpundit’s post suggests that the named source in the article above could be wrong. Let’s hope so.
Even if that’s the case, I’m still right about Trump.
Truck Donald Fump.
Patterico (115b1f) — 10/25/2016 @ 6:42 pmNow the excuses of the con’s marks begins.
SPQR (a3a747) — 10/25/2016 @ 6:44 pmHe doesn’t want to leave the job half done. He already gave Hillary the Presidency, now he has to give her the Congress too.
nk (dbc370) — 10/25/2016 @ 6:46 pmSo it took the man’s narcissism and solipsism to finally get the big money out of politics — or at least out of one side of the aisle. He’s a progressive’s dream.
JVW (6e49ce) — 10/25/2016 @ 6:56 pmSo sad. A dumpster fire of a human being.
But here is the important point. The question is simple: what is the thing that a candidate will do that will cause you to cease supporting him or her?
It speaks to your own center and ethos.
For folks on the Left, they will always, always support Team D. Even if (attention, Bernie Bros) HRC and the media sank another candidate intentionally and with forethought.
I can’t do that with Trump. Other people can. I don’t think they are stupid, or evil. Well, foolish trolls irritate me, but there are many folks who seem clear headed and grudgingly support the guy.
So rather than call each other names, answer the question (to yourself): what could Donald Trump do that would cause you to cease supporting him?
You don’t have to agree with me. But it is how I feel, and I bet I am not alone.
Simon Jester (c8876d) — 10/25/2016 @ 6:57 pmNo, Simon. You aren’t.
Bill H (971e5f) — 10/25/2016 @ 7:12 pmNothing that Trump would do would keep me from voting to defeat any of the candidates of the Moloch worshipping party of Obama and Clinton.
In fact, if he did something bad enough to get thrown in jail before inauguration, that would be just dandy.
But this kind of behavior raises the issue of purposely throwing the campaign again.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 10/25/2016 @ 7:13 pmMD, really?
I yield to no one in my dislike of the corruptocrat party.
But Trump could do nothing to make you throw up your hands and say “enough”?
Simon Jester (c8876d) — 10/25/2016 @ 7:15 pmSimon, I know some conservative folks online but in other places, particularly FB. I have the feeling from them that they know and don’t care how bad Trump is. They want to give the elites a giant middle finger, and think voting for him is a good way to do that. He could in fact kill someone in broad daylight and they would still vote for him.
On the other side, I know plenty of Democrats here in Florida. Almost all of them understand how corrupt Hillary is, but they support Democratic positions, and they think Trump is a far worse person than she is. They don’t think highly of her, but they think he is horrible. And many of them might have at least considered voting for a GOP candidate like Kasich or Rubio who was not horrible because she is corrupt…but they won’t when the candidate is Trump.
Kishnevi (948a4d) — 10/25/2016 @ 7:16 pmthey are throwing the match, because they think they can save themselves, do the assembled personages in the party, give anything but lipservice to this race?
narciso (d1f714) — 10/25/2016 @ 7:18 pmI do not support him,
Not one little bit,
But if Clinton wins,
That may be it.
Some think history
Will just march on,
But it may be without us,
Leftists cheering on and on.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls,
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 10/25/2016 @ 7:19 pmIt may be for theee
If you’re a conservative
And they elect Hillary.
Kishnevi, everyone is different.
But what an awful election for so many people.
If only “none of the above” was on the ballot, right?
I have watched folks, here, make endless snark about Rubio, or Cruz, or (fill in the blank).
So now we have the Destroyer.
I think that, sadly, this is different from the Democrat issue. HRC and the press clearly conspired to knock Sanders out of the race (and yes, Sanders is nutty).
But the Republicans did this to themselves.
And keep in mind that even with Donald Trump being a dumpster fire of a human being, at every turn he continued to make stupid arrogant and immature mistakes. Over and over again. Even with advisors who sort of knew what they were doing.
We are well and truly screwed. But we let it happen, didn’t we?
This is like a Greek curse.
Simon Jester (c8876d) — 10/25/2016 @ 7:22 pmFunny how a businessman that has not spent one day in public office runs for president and suddenly is to blame for all the mischief the establishment politicians have wrought lo these past decades.
Kinda like a cancer patient getting chemo therapy and blaming his hair falling out for all his problems.
LBascom (0e2db9) — 10/25/2016 @ 7:23 pmyou can’t avoid the sjw proselytizing even in escapist entertainment, there are encomiums to shelter the aliens and the inhumans, the proxies for illegal aliens and terrorists, the inkind contribution to the campaign, a cretinous fraud like red squaw can barely raise a medium size crowd for her one time rival, heh.
narciso (d1f714) — 10/25/2016 @ 7:24 pmIf Clinton gets elected, you have the continuation and growth of tyranny,
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 10/25/2016 @ 7:24 pmNo rule of law if you are a D,
Harassed into submission by the IRS and FBI,
Lawfare? These people will give BK a chair at Harvard to teach it.
Sorry, Lee, it’s more like the guy with ebola who snuck into the Texas hospital.
nk (dbc370) — 10/25/2016 @ 7:26 pmcontrast that businessman with Meghan’s cowardly disgrace to the uniform daddy
who’s never cashed a check from anything not the government his whole putrid useless life
happyfeet (28a91b) — 10/25/2016 @ 7:28 pmKishnevi (948a4d) — 10/25/2016 @ 7:16 pm
Ditto, Kishnevi. I had a really interesting discussion with a friend of mine who is a loyal Dem. He swears that Hillary was “far from his first choice” for the party nominee and kind of recognizes that they were pretty thin on options this year. But he thinks the GOP candidate is the worst guy ever and my friend lives in a swing state so he feels that he has a moral obligation to vote for her. Now I have a sneaking suspicion that he would have voted for her even if the GOP had nominated Kasich, Rubio, Fiorina, or anyone else (I did mention he’s a loyal Dem), because the Clinton machine and the media guard would have worked overtime to make him into the second coming of John Wilkes Booth. I just hate the fact that the actual GOP nominee made it so easy for them that they didn’t even have to break a sweat.
JVW (6e49ce) — 10/25/2016 @ 7:28 pmYes, it is like a Greek curse
Or an OT judgment
(But there was a NT one ~70 too)
They are not pleasant to live through,
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 10/25/2016 @ 7:29 pmAnd yes, Trump did not sow this disaster,
Only put the sickle in to harvest.
ah yes voldemort, one of nazguls who purveyed all sorts of rumor, ‘a criminal who is above the law’ like that 80s hasselhof vehicle,
narciso (d1f714) — 10/25/2016 @ 7:29 pmRight, JVW….and let’s face it, these folks have had some help, as you can see even on this blog.
It’s very illustrative to go back to 2008 and 2012, and re-read what many of the current posters wrote back then.
Very instructive.
This is like a put-up job. Trump is the only person, I believe, who could lose to HRC. If Trump was getting better, clearer, refining his approach, I would feel differently.
But let’s be honest: if someone paid Trump to take a fall to let HRC win, what would he do differently?
Simon Jester (c8876d) — 10/25/2016 @ 7:30 pmlol Mr. Trump’s gonna win the whole contest!
(he’s the very best choice is why)
happyfeet (28a91b) — 10/25/2016 @ 7:33 pmNot sure, SJ, not sure.
I say we punish them both by electing him anyway,
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 10/25/2016 @ 7:38 pmAnd then impeach him mid-oath.
‘we have nothing to fear from barack obama’ well that’s at least two pinocchios, ‘he’s in over his head’ that’s one, we know what throwing the match looks like,
narciso (d1f714) — 10/25/2016 @ 7:38 pmSimon the killer for me was that speech at Gettysburg.
He wants to sue all those women? Fine.
But he could have talked about it at the end of the speech. Better yet, leave it to surrogates and staff, and focus on what he’ll do as President, the supposed focus of the speech.
Instead he made his private concern the most important thing. It was all about him. Makes me wonder if he really is a good salesman. The prime rule of selling is to focus on why the product is good for the customer. Never talk about how good it is for you, the salesman. The customer only wants to know what’s in it for me (the customer). Trump can’t get that basic rule right. But a man who can’t discipline himself, and have the sense to figure out what is important, would be a disaster as President.
As it is, barring a change of heart on my part, I ‘ll be voting for Johnson sometime this week (early voting started yesterday in my locale), and Rubio and the small contingent of down ticket Republicans.
Kishnevi (948a4d) — 10/25/2016 @ 7:39 pmLast comment,
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 10/25/2016 @ 7:45 pmAs horrendous as Trump is,
I think Clinton is a greater existential threat to the country.
Makes me wonder if he really is a good salesman. The prime rule of selling is to focus on why the product is good for the customer. Never talk about how good it is for you, the salesman.
Don’t you get the sneaking suspicion that he doesn’t really close any deals, that he just sits there dumb and grunting in the meetings while his lackeys do all of the negotiating to reach the agreement?
JVW (6e49ce) — 10/25/2016 @ 7:46 pm23. I’d prefer the get yo’ hand out my pocket method, but mid oath hook would work too.
urbanleftbehind (847a06) — 10/25/2016 @ 7:53 pmI think Clinton is a greater existential threat to the country.
Agreed. But existential. I don’t think that she will literally wreck the country in four or even eight years, she’ll just inexorably make things worse and worse while insisting that they are getting better and better. The full Roman collapse will probably wait another 20 years.
But the other guy has the potential to be such a failure, and such a train-wreck for the entire center-right movement, that we could come out of four years of his misguided Presidency with Dems holding supermajorities in the House and Senate, and with President Bernard Sanders or Elizabeth Warren. That would be Hillary on steroids, and that would accelerate the demise. No, we have to first kill the cancer before we can start rehabilitating the patient, and that probably means dismissing him now and dealing with the awfulness that Hillary is likely to bring while focusing on limiting her ability to govern.
But I love your idea that we elect him instead, and then impeach him mid-oath. I would back that in a heartbeat.
JVW (6e49ce) — 10/25/2016 @ 7:55 pmI recall the arguments made here, back in 2012, how romney who evinced no sign of great determination, as we discovered later he didn’t even want to run, was the optimum choice over newt, about maverick I won’t belabor the point except to say his apocryphal words that halperin and heileman supposed took down, and his actual behavior are one in the same,
narciso (d1f714) — 10/25/2016 @ 8:01 pmSo, the rnc devotes $0 to Trump is ok, but Trump devotes $0 to rnc bad. The rnc made their bed they lie in it. We should feel bad for establishment?
Jim Morgan (a9b7c7) — 10/25/2016 @ 8:03 pmSo, the rnc devotes $0 to Trump is ok, but Trump devotes $0 to rnc bad.
The other candidate raises money for her party. Why is “our” candidate a one-way welfare case?
JVW (6e49ce) — 10/25/2016 @ 8:04 pmSo, the rnc devotes $0 to Trump is ok
That’s been debunked. Trump has been getting his share of money and advertising from the RNC.
nk (dbc370) — 10/25/2016 @ 8:11 pmperhaps we’re considering probabilities in stead of certainties, and we know her bete noires,
narciso (d1f714) — 10/25/2016 @ 8:12 pmTrump’s campaign fired the guy who spread that libel about the RNC not supporting Trump. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/10/10/trump-virginia-chairman-dismissed/91875220/
nk (dbc370) — 10/25/2016 @ 8:16 pmyes, and what good did that do, he got a new virginia team,
narciso (d1f714) — 10/25/2016 @ 8:17 pmKishnevi, talking about using those women is about taking the fight to the DNC who bought them and the MSM who want to make them the most important issue of the election.
And before you say it, yes, Trump talks about the real important issues too. There’s no reason he shouldn’t do both.
“The other candidate raises money for her party. Why is “our” candidate a one-way welfare case?”
Because the other candidate has the unwavering support of her party? Remember Ryan, said he would no longer appear with Trump or no longer even comment about his race?
Trump doesn’t owe them the sweat off his junk.
LBascom (0e2db9) — 10/25/2016 @ 8:21 pmSue the women…
LBascom (0e2db9) — 10/25/2016 @ 8:23 pmThis is extra sad because the person who will suffer most from a Trump loss is Donald Trump. He will be like OJ to 80% of America.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 10/25/2016 @ 8:36 pm@ LBascom, #37:
Subject-object relationships are difficult to master, I know. But this should be “They don’t owe Trump…”
If you’re still confused, it’s always best to subject the sentence to a real-world check. Elected Republicans obviously don’t owe anything to lifelong progressives — like Obama, Clinton, and Trump.
Demosthenes (09f714) — 10/25/2016 @ 8:36 pmTrue, but that was a decision they should have made on July 20. Once they decided to side him, they should have stuck with him. Politicans! Pshhh!
nk (dbc370) — 10/25/2016 @ 8:39 pmhe owes the people who brought him here, not the flakes, ayottes, et al who increasingly seem to be supporting the other team.
narciso (d1f714) — 10/25/2016 @ 8:45 pmKishnevi, talking about using those women is about taking the fight to the DNC who bought them and the MSM who want to make them the most important issue of the election.
Or, it’s also falling into the media’s trap by talking about them instead of the economy, foreign policy, national security, or any other issue where he might be the strong candidate.. Not that our candidate and his advisory seem to have an idea of this.
JVW (6e49ce) — 10/25/2016 @ 8:46 pmTrump should sue the Republican party for treason.
mg (31009b) — 10/25/2016 @ 8:54 pmTrump should sue the Republican party for treason.
Fine, and the GOP can counter-sue for malpractice.
JVW (6e49ce) — 10/25/2016 @ 8:55 pmPerfect and down goes the republican party, broke.
mg (31009b) — 10/25/2016 @ 8:57 pmUPDATE: An update to Allahpundit’s post suggests that the named source in the article above could be wrong. Let’s hope so.
Even if that’s the case, I’m still right about Trump.
Patterico (115b1f) — 10/25/2016 @ 9:33 pmthere’s another alternative, jacobs is lying, it’s not out of the realm of possibility,
narciso (d1f714) — 10/25/2016 @ 9:41 pmTrump should sue the Republican party for treason.
The traitors are the ones who voted for him.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 10/25/2016 @ 11:03 pmPerfect and down goes the republican party, broke.
You see this over and over among the hard-core Trumpist traitors. Their intention was to ratfukk the GOP — Trump was just their tool. I’ve been seeing it since last year. Every so often the mask slips. In reality they’re just useful idiots for the Reds.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 10/25/2016 @ 11:08 pmThey seem to think that the PEOPLE! will RISE UP! and form a new party to the right of Genghis Khan once the GOP is done, when in fact they just remove the only effective defense they had against irreversible statism.
They of course will have a sour grapes defense: “We were losing anyway!”
Kevin M (25bbee) — 10/25/2016 @ 11:11 pmI voted for Ted. He lost, I now support Trump who hates the media and traitor republicans like Kevin M.
mg (31009b) — 10/26/2016 @ 4:01 amThis is going to be a riot either way. The blame game on people for and against Trump will be forever. Country first for all of us patriots. Clinton first for team republican.
mg (31009b) — 10/26/2016 @ 4:05 amteam republican has did nothing in two years to stop the bonus repayments of our servicemen. Disgusting and traitorous. They care more about illegals than they do American Patriots. I do not recognize the country I once loved.
mg (31009b) — 10/26/2016 @ 4:27 amOne thing Trump and Clinton voters have in common: they think that voting for a corrupt, criminal, cronyist liberal means they’re putting the country first.
Demosthenes (09f714) — 10/26/2016 @ 4:27 amIf you don’t love it, by all means, leave it.
Demosthenes (09f714) — 10/26/2016 @ 4:29 amAs horrendous as Trump is,
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 10/26/2016 @ 4:42 amhe could be removed from office,
No Dem will ever be.
#AlmostNeverTrump
#AlwaysNeverClinton
#Here’sToPence
Trump is all about Trump, which makes me wonder if this is Trump pretending to stop fundraising because he’s not bringing in much money. The last thing he wants is for the FEC records to show that at the end of the campaign, his fundraising was a total bust. Trump can’t admit he failed. Better to say he chose to quit.
DRJ (15874d) — 10/26/2016 @ 5:44 amIf he could think of a way to say fundraising is rigged …
DRJ (15874d) — 10/26/2016 @ 5:45 amMr. Trump’s an ace jet fighter pilot and a master of sous-vide cooking techniques
all we have to do is hand him the ball and he’ll run with it
it will be so good to see the country united
it will be so good to see the country prosper
to see the children smile again
happyfeet (28a91b) — 10/26/2016 @ 5:51 amSo you jumped to conclusions and got shin splits, the core of progressive con went reform, in the UK they formed the independence party.
narciso (d1f714) — 10/26/2016 @ 6:20 amOf course fund raising is rigged, DRJ.
There’s China. It raised the prices at Walmart and Trump supporters now have less disposable income.
And why did Apple come out with the iPhone 7 now? Because it’s $700 less that people will have to give to Trump, that’s why.
And Obamacare rates going up. Obama did that to make people choose between having health insurance and donating to Trump.
And Hollywood. Have you seen all the movies coming out and the prices at theater concession stands? That’s money that people could otherwise have donated to Trump. Everybody knows that Hollywood is behind Hillary.
And did I mention China?
nk (dbc370) — 10/26/2016 @ 6:32 amIt’s fascinating that Trump has been a paying supported of everything Hillary has done and wants to do. He dismissed her Benghazi scandal while praising her work as Secretary of State. Yet people are going to act like a vote for Trump is somehow a vote against Hillary.
The choice isn’t binary. It’s over. We had our choice against Hillary in the primary, and Trump/Hillary won Hillary the presidency then and there.
Dustin (ba94b2) — 10/26/2016 @ 6:39 amIts like there is no lesson, they learn, the irs crushed the tea party like godzilla, there was no accountability, politico cooked up a sob story for Lerner and evil lip skated.
narciso (d1f714) — 10/26/2016 @ 6:39 amAnd the Medici have her a medal, and max boot trust her now, forcreadond passing understanding.
narciso (d1f714) — 10/26/2016 @ 6:40 amA vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote for Clintonian abuse of authority and supports her wielding the authoritarian hammer against her personal enemies and those she derides as “the deplorables.”
Colonel Haiku (43fb26) — 10/26/2016 @ 6:43 amAnd yet christinevdidcwell upon independents, you think I don’t remember your last two minute hate?
narciso (d1f714) — 10/26/2016 @ 6:45 amIt’s sunny outside, but if he says it’s raining, well…
Colonel Haiku (43fb26) — 10/26/2016 @ 6:45 amThat club is crowded, nobody goes there anymore.
narciso (d1f714) — 10/26/2016 @ 6:47 amwhat’s amusing is an offhand statement from mnuchin, who is expert at financing high risk, high reward gets their goat, but not every criminal assault by this administration,
narciso (d1f714) — 10/26/2016 @ 7:20 amKishnevi (948a4d) — 10/25/2016 @ 7:16 pm
Do they say outright that there are certain things that are more important than honesty and integrity in government and an abbsence of corruption?
That’s a very reasonable position actually, provided you understand the limits of the corrupton, but I don’t see any newspaper editorials saying that though, or are there any?
Sammy Finkelman (ebcca6) — 10/26/2016 @ 10:12 am@ Dustin, #63:
Oh, but don’t worry about what he has done or said for literally most of the several decades of his life in the public eye! Now he’s all about the wall and the living babies. I mean, what’s a better indicator of a man’s belief and character, how he’s acted for much of his adult life — or what he says right now in the hopes of winning the leadership of the free world? Obviously the latter!
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Demosthenes (09f714) — 10/26/2016 @ 3:04 pmI can only laugh at how ridiculous this site has become now.
Mr Black (7c41e5) — 10/26/2016 @ 4:46 pm