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Trump Wants to Use What Little Money His Campaign Has on Flipping NY, CA, NJ, MD
One of those wacky ideas was on display Thursday at a fundraising event at New York’s Four Seasons Hotel. At the event, Trump told donors he planned to target solid Democratic states like California, Maryland and New Jersey, according to multiple media reports. None of these states have been remotely close for Republicans since the 1980s, and all three have extremely expensive media markets that would require redirecting large amounts of resources from states that Trump conceivably could win
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Trump doesn’t want to piss away money in just these three wildly expensive media markets. He also wants to throw away his money — and the party’s — in the biggest media market: New York. The Empire State has essentially zero chance of voting Republican in the general election, but Trump can’t stay away from promoting himself in his home state, the center of his business empire. His campaign has come up with a cock-eyed plan to win the state by playing big in the upstate region, blanketing it with bumper stickers and yard signs. The campaign’s co-chair in New York, Carl Paladino, who is in charge of this effort, was crushed when he ran for governor there on a proto-Trump platform in the Republican wave election year of 2010
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History does not bode well for candidates facing such huge money gaps. In 1996, Bob Dole’s campaign ran out of primary money before the Republican convention and was forced to significantly limit its advertising and travel budget for the crucial summer months. His resignation from the Senate was partly motivated by his money shortage so he could appear at “issue-based” events paid for with RNC “soft money.” Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was the last general election presidential candidate from either major party to accept public financing and found himself facing an insurmountable financial deficit against Obama in 2008. Dole and McCain both lost badly.
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Trump doesn’t want to piss away money in just these three wildly expensive media markets. He also wants to throw away his money — and the party’s — in the biggest media market: New York. The Empire State has essentially zero chance of voting Republican in the general election, but Trump can’t stay away from promoting himself in his home state, the center of his business empire. His campaign has come up with a cock-eyed plan to win the state by playing big in the upstate region, blanketing it with bumper stickers and yard signs. The campaign’s co-chair in New York, Carl Paladino, who is in charge of this effort, was crushed when he ran for governor there on a proto-Trump platform in the Republican wave election year of 2010
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History does not bode well for candidates facing such huge money gaps. In 1996, Bob Dole’s campaign ran out of primary money before the Republican convention and was forced to significantly limit its advertising and travel budget for the crucial summer months. His resignation from the Senate was partly motivated by his money shortage so he could appear at “issue-based” events paid for with RNC “soft money.” Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was the last general election presidential candidate from either major party to accept public financing and found himself facing an insurmountable financial deficit against Obama in 2008. Dole and McCain both lost badly.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-campaign-money_us_575b3334e4b00f97fba8659d?ktxojwtq1ib6l59udi
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is his wig! 
