Clinton Blasts Trump’s Business Record
It takes money to win a presidential election in the United States, and so far presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign is easily winning that battle.
Malbin says Trump may be able to rectify the situation if he has the liquid cash that he has said he has and opens his own checkbook with a large donation to his campaign.
Trump’s donors and allies in Washington have continuously expressed concern over the workings of the campaign, which has been marked by disunity with some Republicans and infighting. Trump promised: “I’m not a cutter”.
Many Republicans feel he has squandered the precious weeks since locking up the nomination.
Laying the groundwork, Clinton’s campaign seized on a report Monday by Moody’s Analytics which found Trump’s plans would lead to a “lengthy recession”, costing almost 3.5 million American jobs.
Bolstered by more than $40 million in television advertising, Clinton and her Democratic allies are trying to use this period before the summer Democratic National Convention to disqualify Trump on the economy and prevent him from successfully wooing working-class voters in battleground states like Ohio, Wisconsin and MI. While Clinton spoke in Columbus, Trump’s campaign - in an unusually traditional move - fired off a series of rapid-response emails blasting “the catastrophic economic record under Clinton-Obama policies” and labeling his Democratic opponent “unstable, erratic, violent”.
Wealthy Clinton donors also chipped in another $12 million for a super PAC supporting her, while one backing Trump pulled in just over $1 million. She has also criticized Trump’s positions on foreign policy and the economy, saying a Trump presidency would be a “disaster”.
“A presidential campaign must have unity of command”. “You can’t have two heads of anything”.
Yet Trump’s companies also charge his campaign for goods and services, putting him at risk of appearing to be a self-dealer. “That makes us stronger and more prosperous”, the former Secretary of State said. “Hopefully that will be easier with one chef”.
“That’s what’s going to define the rest of the message in the campaign”, said Spencer Zwick, Romney’s fundraising chief in the 2012 campaign. Going after Clinton is nothing new for Trump, but the way his campaign did represented a clear shift in tactics.
His communications team now consists of a single spokeswoman and he has just about 30 paid staff deployed to battleground states across the country. Despite the sweltering heat, the crowd did not hold back any applause as Clinton took to the stage to Rachel Platten’s upbeat “Fight Song”. The spending includes a $423,000 May payment to Mar-a-Lago, the private club in Florida that serves as his vacation home, and enough Trump-branded bottled water to fill a bathtub.
Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Reince Priebus in a statement said Clinton is the last person qualified to talk about what will get the economy thriving again.
“He has repeatedly called for a ban on Muslims entering our country”.
Trump is a billionaire, so he could conceivably inject millions into his campaign at any time, but he has yet to do so.
Donors gave Trump’s campaign about $3 million in May, even though he enjoyed presumptive nominee status for nearly the entire month.
Some elected officials from MA have larger war chests than Trump’s campaign, as do a few candidates who were recently knocked out of the presidential contest.
He added: “Our campaign is leaner and more efficient like our government should be”. But I feel he needs to do more. “Now, she’s been in the public eye for years and years, and yet there’s nothing out there”, he said.
“Every day we see how reckless and careless Trump is”.
But Bennett, the adviser, suggested any major change was unlikely.
About $5,000 from the campaign went to Eric Trump Wine Manufacturing LLC, which offers Virginia wines bearing the bold letters of Trump.