Trump Campaign Spent $32 Million More Than It Raised in August

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-04/trump-campaign-spent-32-million-more-than-it-raised-in-august

36 Comments

  1. code_archeologist on

    Meanwhile Harris has so much extra money that they are following over $25 million to down ballot races. 🤣

  2. OppositeDifference on

    Archive Link – https://archive.ph/YMyvA

    He’s been solidly outraised on all fronts by the Harris campaign, who recently had 25 million to spare to help down ballot candidates despite spending heavily in the swing states. (as much as 8 to 1 vs Trump in some cases)

    That being said, he’s not in serious danger of running out any time soon since we’re so close to election night. He’s going to need to prioritize and maybe scale back a few things, but the poor swing state voters will still have to deal with his nausea inducing ads for a bit yet.

  3. It’s all smoke and mirrors with him though.

    His biggest expenditure is always to a company that ‘buys media’ but is also run by people in his family. So, you can’t actually tell where it is all spent, much of it funnels back to his own pockets.

  4. >The Republican presidential nominee ended August with $295 million in the bank, about $32 million less than he had at the start of that month.

    So, if you still have $295M in the bank, then spending more this close to the election in a month than you raised seems like a non-story. The better angle here would be how much of the expenditures go into Trump’s pocket for paying for use of his venues, his aircraft, advertising on Truth Social, etc.

  5. So they’re not even pulling in enough to do the little campaigning they’re currently doing? That’s delicious.

    Equally delightful is the fact that the value of Trump Media stock dropped by over a dollar today. Keep up that *amazing* work, Donnie! We’re here for it!

  6. What does that tell you? They are in financial trouble. Donations continue to dry up. Wont be long before Trump campaign runs out of money. He has bled Republican party dry.

  7. I remember all of the Republicans running for anything when I young saying “why should Congress spend more money than it has? Middle class Americans have to balance their checkbooks!” Using that logic, why should someone who spends $32 million more than he has be elected President. Bad businessman! Sad!

  8. He’s going to dump every penny into Pennsylvania and Georgia. No money going to other races. He needs to flip PA and GA and hold all the other states he won in 2020. That’s why NC and even FL will be states to watch. If he slips in polling there he will really scramble. He’s starting to in NC but not enough to shake him. Hopefully the jerk off king of NC in the governors race will drag him down.

  9. Doesn’t really matter for him. The last time, when his campaign was faltering and nearly broke in the final months of 2016, he got a massive illegal campaign contributuon, won and suffered no consequences.

    Are there any other rich assholes in the world who might want to own a piece of the US president?

    We’re not going to beat him by having him run out of money. We have to just beat him.

  10. Meanwhile Kamala just trickle-downed 25 mil to down ballot campaigns because they have so much.

    How can ANYONE put any kind of faith or support in Trump, of all people?