Final FEC Reports

[Virginiá]

Does that mean that as of October 19th, she has 62+ million cash-on-hand?

God I hope she has turned her full focus downballot. Last thing we need is for her to end the election with millions left over / unused while otherwise winnable races are lost because they didn't get a little extra love.

[Virginiá]

Is there official protocol for what you're supposed to do if you finish a campaign with massive amounts of cash on hand?

https://ballotpedia.org/What_can_politicians_do_with_unused_campaign_funds%3F

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She could hoard it until 2020 if she decides to run again, or she can save it for 2018, or she can do nothing, and so on. It just can't be used for herself / personal stuff.

[Virginiá]

Looking at the actual FEC report, a little more than half comes from transfers from other committees. But I think he has now stopped that joint fundraising with the RNC, so apparently that will dry up. It may be based on his burn rate that he has no choice but to put money in. His TV spend for the week actually exceeds Clinton's at $14.4m (vs Clinton at $13.9).  However, for the report period Trump only personally contributed $30,681.67 during this period.

He has said as recently as this week that he will have spent $100m in total by election day. As of a week ago he had put in about $56m. It looks like his campaign will need that $44m to make it to election day, or they are going to have to start firing people or pulling back some of their booked TV, or perhaps go into debt.  

What's that you say? Debt? Well, it's a good thing he is..


THE KING OF DEBT

[Virginiá]

He should have done this before early voting started in earnest. However, I'm still glad he's decided to waste more of his money.

If some new bad revelation/tape/whatever shows up before election day, it's essentially going to erase whatever meager gains, if any, that 10 million buys him. But I guess he really doesn't have any other options.