Lagging in fundraising, Trump calls on GOP for support

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has a huge advantage in campaign funds over Republican rival Donald Trump, figures show.

With spending that outpaced inflows, his campaign began June with just US$1.29 million in cash, well-behind Clinton’s US$42 million war chest.

The Clinton campaign has reserved about $30 million in air-time in swing states to describe her story and to define Mr. Trump. “I spent $55 million of my own money to win the primaries-55”.

Those numbers – weak for a Congressional campaign, let alone a run at the White House – have put Trump and the Republican Party at an extraordinary financial disadvantage heading into the general election. In late May, Trump set up two joint fundraising committees with the RNC, a move that was supposed to help him and the party tap into a gusher of cash.

Tuesday is the first full day the Trump campaign will spend without Lewandowski at the helm following a record-setting primary season. Among the criticisms, Trump said the judge is biased against him and should recuse himself from the fraud case because the billionaire wants to build a wall between the US and Mexico. “I think he’ll use more caution as he goes about presenting himself to the country”, said Hughey.

Trump and former GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson are leading a discussion with hundreds of evangelical leaders in hopes of landing their support in November. A majority-54 percent-say Clinton would be better in handling an worldwide crisis while 39 percent think Trump would be.

Together, Trump and the Republican National Committee brought in about $18.6 million in May, including another loan from the candidate.

If for some reason she was freed of her obligation to vote for Kasich in the first round of voting at the convention, Patton said she would continue to back the OH governor if he was in the running for the nomination, but otherwise she will back Trump.

Many Republicans feel he has squandered the precious weeks since locking up the nomination. Following the massacre, Trump renewed his calls for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US.

Details of the filings – and Trump’s shortage of cash – have sparked about the campaign’s viability but also a trending hashtag on Twitter.

The WSJ noted Clinton’s super PAC also surpassed Trump’s network of outside groups in April. Less than a month later, he told Bloomberg he saw no reason to raise that much and suggested he may not gather even half that amount, relying instead on news media coverage as he did during the primary contests. On the campaign trail, he appears stuck in a primary campaign he’s already won. Since then, the campaign’s rival factions have been jockeying for power.

While the campaign announced that Trump “will be making a speech regarding the election” on Wednesday in New York City, it later confirmed that the appearance will include anti-Clinton remarks that had been scheduled for delivery earlier in the month.

“The campaign’s going to pick up the speed”, Bennett said. When asked about who has higher moral standards, 47 percent answer Clinton and 36 percent say Trump. It’s not clear how much difference his departure will make, or whether a change in style will change Trump’s results.

“This is the first fundraising email I have ever sent on behalf of my campaign”, Trump wrote. “If I don’t have great support, I’ll go a different route”.