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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is starting the general election match-up against Hillary Clinton in a precarious financial position. By the end of April, the most recently available period for campaign disclosures, the Trump campaign and groups that will support him trailed Team Clinton by more than $200 million. At the same point in 2012, Mitt Romney and his team trailed President Barack Obama by about $65 million less than that.
According to campaign finance records, Trump and the Republican National Committee combined raised $209 million through April. The Clinton campaign, the Democratic National Committee, the Hillary Victory joint fundraising committee and the two super PACs most closely associated with her campaign, Priorities USA Action and Correct the Record, raised a combined $410 million. This finance comparison is for the period before Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee and announced he would begin fundraising in earnest for the general election rather than continue to self-finance.
Reaching some form of parity with the Clinton campaign will be essential for Trump and the Republicans to adequately fund the party’s operations, from data and tech to basic get-out-the-vote operations. Trump’s campaign already has just 70 staff members to Clinton’s 732. The party has rapidly put together a fundraising apparatus for the billionaire eccentric’s campaign and sent him on a fundraising tour, but his wacky ideas and obsession with media-heavy coastal states may make it nearly impossible for him to close the money gap.
According to campaign finance records, Trump and the Republican National Committee combined raised $209 million through April. The Clinton campaign, the Democratic National Committee, the Hillary Victory joint fundraising committee and the two super PACs most closely associated with her campaign, Priorities USA Action and Correct the Record, raised a combined $410 million. This finance comparison is for the period before Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee and announced he would begin fundraising in earnest for the general election rather than continue to self-finance.
Reaching some form of parity with the Clinton campaign will be essential for Trump and the Republicans to adequately fund the party’s operations, from data and tech to basic get-out-the-vote operations. Trump’s campaign already has just 70 staff members to Clinton’s 732. The party has rapidly put together a fundraising apparatus for the billionaire eccentric’s campaign and sent him on a fundraising tour, but his wacky ideas and obsession with media-heavy coastal states may make it nearly impossible for him to close the money gap.
