Trump Has Spent More on Hats Than Polling

[applegrove]

Trump Has Spent More on Hats Than Polling

https://politicalwire.com/2016/10/25/trump-spent-hats-polling/

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Donald Trump’s presidential campaign “has spent $1.8 million on polling from June 2015 through September of this year (the most recent month for which data are available.) The report also lists $3.2 million spent on hats,” the Washington Post reports.

“Trump has probably spent more on hats than he has spent on direct mail. The campaign filings occasionally aggregate a few things from the same vendor under one line-item, so some of the hat spending was on collateral generally that includes some hats. (His campaign spent more than $2 million on a line-item that was exclusively hats, though.) Overall, Trump’s spent about $15.3 million on collateral — shirts, hats, signs, etc. — more than he has spent on field consulting and voter lists and data.”


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[C_U_L8R]

1. All hat and no data

The definition of Trumpism.

[applegrove]

3. I like it. It reeks of Trump wanting to do things his own way.

[matt819]

4. My bet

Trump owns the hat company. So he's paying himself.

[procon]

5. No worries, he's making a nice profit from sales of his branded merchandise.

His website sells those hats at $25 each, and they cost him a fraction of that. So, for that outlay of $3.2 million for hats, conservatively, Trump probably pockets $30+ million. On the other hand, polling expenses don't make him a dime.

[fierywoman]

6. Were the hats made in China?

[Grassy Knoll]

8. Yup..

[Cresent City Kid]

7. And he outsources the polling

He can't bring himself to pay for something he believes he can get for free. The hats he can rationalize as advertising but he's too politically ignorant to and intellectually lazy to find out why campaigns do what they do and what works. I'm not for gobs of dark cash buying elections but at least some political spending ends up in the households of regular people putting food on the table. Trump even fucks that up.