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The Mikado
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« on: March 20, 2024, 04:59:32 PM »

Usually when people say that Cash on Hand doesn't matter that much on the Presidential level they're not imagining someone literally TRIPLING his opponent.
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« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2024, 05:08:15 PM »

If that trend continues Trump is not going to be able to keep up in ad spending and GOTV infrastructure. Republicans rely on paid canvassers and staff to do ground work whereas Democrats have a bigger base of volunteers. Biden can put a lot of that money towards ads and opening offices while Trump will be paying legal bills and putting up cheap web ads.

I think Trump's hope has to be that Haley dropping out loosens some big donor wallets who had been holding out hope that he wouldn't be the nominee. Remember Haley dropped out on March 6th so the primary was still ongoing in this period. If the NEXT report doesn't have a big Trump's the Nominee surge this is real trouble.

I actually am starting to see the reason why Biden's toying with spending in Florida and Texas even though I think there's close to zero chance he wins either: if he can force the cash-strapped Trump campaign to spend there that's a huge benefit and when you have a three to one cash edge you can do things like make plays in places purely to force the other side on defense.
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« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2024, 05:35:27 PM »
« Edited: March 20, 2024, 05:43:06 PM by The Mikado »


RFK Jr

Raised: 3.1 M
Spent: 2.8 M
Cash on hand 5M

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/20/robert-kennedy-jr-security-debt-fec-00148149

EDIT: If anyone finds Cornel West's or Jill Stein's numbers, please post in thread. Thanks!
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« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2024, 05:44:56 PM »


What did he spent $2.8M on? His PAC was handling most of the ballot access too, so it definitely wasn't that, and he hasn't run any ads. He nearly outspent his income again in February (I believe he did this in January too, and raised more in Jan than Feb); this is not a serious campaign.

The article goes into this, but he's been spending hand over fist on his personal security/bodyguards. It's the reason he's so angry he hasn't been granted Secret Service protection (which IIRC no third party candidate has ever gotten?).
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« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2024, 05:58:32 PM »

Great. If anyone would post Jill Stein's when it pops up (and any other third parties you see ofc but that's one I'm interested in) that'd be great.
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« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2024, 02:34:53 PM »



Jill Stein:

Raised 107K
Spent 88K
57K Cash on Hand.
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