Donald Trump’s campaign filings show the Republican front-runner spent just $6.8 million in the final three months of last year. The outlay is less than half of what Ted Cruz, his nearest rival in the polls, spent during the same period.
Early in his campaign, Trump said he was willing to spend $100 million of his own money to win the Republican nomination. But propelled by his ability to generate controversy and free media, the businessman turned presidential candidate has not needed to. His first advertisements ran in early January, and he’s spent relatively little on campaign staff and consultants.
In total, Trump took in $13.5 million in campaign funds. Most of that money came in the form of a $10.8 million personal loan from the candidate, though Trump also collected more than $2.6 million from individual donors. Trump has said that he is not soliciting funds from campaign donors, though Newsmax Media, which runs a conservative news site, pitched itself as the Trump campaign’s exclusive online fundraising firm this summer.
The single largest vendor to the Trump campaign funding was himself. He spent $826,590 in payments his TAG Air, Inc, which owns a fleet of aircraft including his campaign jet. Additional outlays to Trump businesses include $$70,915 to Trump Tower Commercial LLC and $3,000 to Trump Restaurants LLC.
Trump’s campaign had nearly $7 million in the bank by the start of 2016.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Where did Repubs and TPs got Sarah Palin from? Look how she was dressed at endorsing and promoting Trump. That dress was for sleazy girls not for President of TPs and Repubs or governor. And Repubs and TPs talk about family values. Is that family value! I am told last December her family got in a brawl in a tavern and they were thrown out. I wonder if it’s true she had 5 guns each with 25 rounds and carries them in her vehicle. Well, she may be right. I am told Alaska has a lot of grizzly bears and coyotes. Not in Iowa. May be she should have been neighbor with John Wayne, the move star and gunslinger. Sarah Palin has trapped the Repubs and TPs. They are in trouble. Good luck with her.
These comments are all over the place. What is it you are trying to get across?? Masanja B.
She never did know how to dress, so that’s nothing new. There are all kinds of ‘hearsay’ things out
there for all the Candidates and even people ‘we’ never heard of for cryin’ out loud. I even ‘Heard’
that someone named Masanja B. carries 5 Whamo Sling Shots and has 6 pellets for each in the
Glove Compartment of the Car. BTW Iowa does have coyotes. “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up!”
Or Can You?