Trump plans to ‘spend big’ on advertising in primary states

Republican White House frontrunner Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will start spending millions of dollars in hard-hitting campaign advertising in the run-up to the first votes in the 2016 presidential race.

“I’ll be spending a minimum of US$2 million (S$3 million) a week and perhaps substantially more”, Mr Trump, the party’s front runner, told reporters, according to video that aired on CNN.

“Trump tweeted Tuesday morning that his presidential campaign is “$35,000,000 under budget”, boasting that he’s in “first place”, even though he’s “spent very little”. “The Republican Party of Virginia has required for some time what strikes me as simply common sense, which is that Republicans should nominate Republicans”, said Lynch.

Trump bashed the media, Democrats and his Republican rivals – and the rowdy crowd continuously cut him off for opportunities to chant, “USA, USA, USA”, “TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMP” and to shriek in approval.

Indeed, Clinton leads Trump by six points in Real Clear Politics’ polling average. Historically, Democratic affiliated voters or unaffiliated voters could vote in Republican primaries in the state – a rule they’re more likely to take advantage of in a year when the Democratic nomination seems locked up.

“I don’t know how I’m going to do, but I think I’m going to do really well in Iowa”, Trump said when asked about his voter turnout plan, a question that he clearly dodged.

Donald Trump’s campaign still mystifies those who harbor no intention of voting for the billionaire.

It should be said that Trump’s spending is dwarfed by that of the other major candidates, who solicit quite a bit more money from rich people and corporate bundlers. Earlier this week, Trump took new shots at Bush via Twitter, despite the fact that the former Florida governor has slipped to the lower echelons of the field of candidates. Business insider said that Trump, however, has relied on free media coverage and right-leaning outlets to get his message out.

But the progressive documentary director thinks it’s impossible that Trump will become president, because, as he puts it, “81 percent of the country is either women, people of color, or youth between the ages of 18 to 31”, groups that he says Trump has alienated. “I can’t advertise because I’m getting so much coverage”.

How can Carly Fiorina, Jeb Bush and those other fine non-Trump Republicans still running for president – I’ve forgotten half of their names – stand it?