I really do wonder how it works on the back end. I assume that in addition to all the official money they report they have effectively unlimited money to do whatever they want in the background. I mean Hilary only spent a billion dollars on her campaign and it was supposedly the most expensive campaign ever. What's a billion dollars split between all the oil companies and arms companies and what have you?
Would it surprise you if I said that ol' Donny Trump ran the leanest campaign since 2000? He only spent about $350,000,000 of the money he raised himself. Mostly by hosting events on properties he owned, using his own jets, cars, and buses, and basking in the hundreds of millions of free advertising the 24 hour news cycle gave him.
The Obama campaign in 2008 spent almost a billion by itself, and the DNC chipped in another third of a billion.
I just assumed the Republicans are floating on an infinite pool of dark money. Didn't actually consider one man could swindle it all.
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I really do wonder how it works on the back end. I assume that in addition to all the official money they report they have effectively unlimited money to do whatever they want in the background. I mean Hilary only spent a billion dollars on her campaign and it was supposedly the most expensive campaign ever. What's a billion dollars split between all the oil companies and arms companies and what have you?
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Would it surprise you if I said that ol' Donny Trump ran the leanest campaign since 2000? He only spent about $350,000,000 of the money he raised himself. Mostly by hosting events on properties he owned, using his own jets, cars, and buses, and basking in the hundreds of millions of free advertising the 24 hour news cycle gave him.
The Obama campaign in 2008 spent almost a billion by itself, and the DNC chipped in another third of a billion.