I’m glad to be on vacation considering I don’t want to write about Donald Trump’s latest outrage. His behavior is intolerable and he continues to test our system’s ability to honor him as a legitimate candidate without treating him as a criminal. Ordinary citizens are rigorously investigated for suspicion of colluding with foreign governments and inciting violence against high government officials. But, how do you do that without giving the appearance that you’re using the organs of the state to influence the election?
Trump is testing us all.
Thomas Friedman has reached his previously unknown limit.
http://nytimes.com/2016/08/10/opinion/trumps-ambiguous-wink-wink-to-second-amendment-people.html
Very, very shrill indeed.
You don’t like that? You have a problem with him calling Trump a “disgusting human being” and insisting he must lose all 50 states? You don’t agree with that?
Just because it’s Friedman and he’s an idiot? You think it’s “shrill”? It’s not “shrill” at all — it’s true, and if you can’t agree with that, I honestly don’t know where the fuck you’re coming from. With all those CENTCOM types crossing party lines to call Trump literally a fundamental threat to world stability and joining the ranks (of Republicans) saying he’s a threat to the foundations of our democracy — What, you don’t agree? You think that’s hyperbole?
Maybe I’m just in a bad mood or something (or I’m rattled by the most recent Trump stuff, which, I agree with BooMan: it’s wearying in a cumulative sense; it’s hard to keep reacting to) but this is just all wrong. Friedman is “shrill” when he says these things? Are you fucking kidding?
That was snark. ‘Shrill’ is commonly used to dismiss criticism from the left by the Very Serious People like Friedman.
Thank you. I was slow on the trigger and you beat me to it.
I didn’t get it, and I apologize.
I’m sorry; Trump right now has me very upset and nervous. (See my remarks below for, perhaps, another exaggerated response.)
Trump and his antics have a number of us on edge.
A colleague in a neighboring office is a politics junkie and has long had the habit of descending upon me as soon as I get to work in the morning with denunciations of the GOP. In the last election cycle, there was one morning where, when he did this, I just blurted out “no politics” before he could get out a word. He didn’t know what to do. A couple of weeks ago, in a similar situation, I told him that I was so stressed and angry about the Trump situation that I needed a break and thus needed him to avoid talking about politics. I had to repeat this several times before he realized that I was serious.
I’m doing more self-care to try to reduce my stress, and especially trying to spend time with my kid before she returns to college later this month.
I succeeded at this fairly well for 2012, but it’s back with a vengeance this time. I know some of my friends have it worse. Or maybe they think that I’m the one who’s got it worse.
I never talk politics at the office. Never.
It’s not Trump that has me down, it’s all of the people that voted for him and continue to support him that depresses the hell out of me.
I read that column this morning and wondered if they’d had Krugman ghost write it or something.
Friedman not only hammering the right message but not butchering the whole thing with insane metaphors is a new one for me.
America is suppose to be a country of laws. These laws are suppose to apply equally to all. When it does not for any reason then America has become a country of chaos!
Josh Marshall’s take
Trump Suggests Clinton Meet Violent End
You’ve seen the quote. It speaks for itself. But remember this. For Donald Trump, life is about domination. There are dominators and the dominated. Right now he’s being dominated, beaten, humiliated. That may be fun to watch if you’re a Democrat. It’s not fun for him. That psychic injury will drive escalating reactions.
– Josh Marshall
Booman’s remarks about ordinary citizens vs. presidential candidates is well taken and not an angle I have hear discussed much.
I’ve often thought that the Clinton campaign ought to treat Trump as a caged animal and prod him, so to speak, to provoke crazy behavior and outrageous remarks, but Trump seems to do all that quite well on his own.
We have to use our system to take Trump down, strictly within the clear structures of our elective process. We have to avoid Hitler and Nazism as Americans, to show the world who we are.
(And I’m not exaggerating in the slightest; Trump has already de-stabilized important elements of geopolitics — the whole world is watching.) (And I’ll take any comers who object to my Hitler comparisons; I happen to know exactly what I’m talking about in terms of von Papen and Hindenberg and the rallies of the time.)
In cop movie terms, he has to be taken down and he has to be taken down by the book.
I’ve often thought that the Clinton campaign ought to treat Trump as a caged animal and prod him, so to speak, to provoke crazy behavior and outrageous remarks, but Trump seems to do all that quite well on his own
I think Trump losing to her is having that effect
Are the Republicans you know distancing themselves from Trump or sharing his Facebook ads?
That’s one way to measure the effects on the election.
“…he continues to test our system’s ability to honor him as a legitimate candidate without treating him as a criminal…”
Sigh.
That’s the dileemma the the Obama administration has faced about right-wing domestic terrorism from Day 1.
Trump might just implode the system as well as the Republican Party. Lord knows, the media want to help him.
As the GOP writes off the Presidency and scrambles to save the down-ticket, especially the Senate races.
And the response to Trump’s statement gooses gun sales yet again.
For a real vacation, shut off the devices and take off to the mountains or a non-tourist area of the coast.
I am guessing the folks prone to hoard firearms out of fear of Obama or Clinton, or black helicopters are driving up sales after each shooting or each time Trump opens his big yap and says something beyond the pale like he did yesterday. Lovely.
Oh, I forgot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=5vyFqmp4wzI
I don’t generally like to link to my own writing – bad form and all – but I don’t think any of this is the doing of an undisciplined narcissism. Trump is setting himself up very, very carefully to challenge the legitimacy of our democratic system. And there are plenty of people who will follow that lead. It’s time to stop treating him as a legitimate candidate, and start treating him as a threat to the republic. http://geov.org/gp/?p=451
Excellent article. You just scared the piss out of me.
This article in Rolling Stone will probably cause a few nightmares as well. At this point, as Geov mentioned in his blog post, false equivalence is off the table. There is no further point in engaging those who continue to insist that somehow “both sides” do it. What Trump did yesterday was, like so many of his antics, off the rails. There is no excusing it, including by way of assertions that somewhere back in political history such and such might have done something mildly similar maybe. My best guess is that the sympathetic audience for that kind of talk is dwindling. Fast. Personally, I’ve lost all patience.
Yeh, that article lays out the blueprint precisely for what Trump’s doing. I expect Clinton’s security to do a good job (though they have to be perfect every time; an assassin just has to get lucky once), but we’re going to see judges killed.
I hope most fervently that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, for one, has heavy protection.
Rub this up against Booman’s point. Any effort to hold him accountable for incitement will be spun by the media and the Trump campaign as political interference in an election exactly because Trump’s incitement to terrorism was stochastic and not directive.
Scary. But not realistic. Trump does not have the power to do that. He’s nowhere near popular enough. But he does have the power to make a lot of trouble.
I’m beginning to think that Trump’s real game is to make things so bad for the Republican Party — yes, he’s a godsend to Hillary, but just wiping the floor with what’s left of the GOP — that they will soon be ready to pay him to go away. At that point the “art of the deal” kicks in, and Trump wins — not the election, but the lengthy reality-show series that is all this is to him.
Trump is starting to remind me of Terry Southern’s “Magic Christian.” No, I’m not suggesting he’s ever read the book (or any book), or even seen the movie. But he doesn’t need to — Trump is every bit as weird as Southern’s fictional “grand guy”, Guy Grand. He is doing it a little differently, though: Guy Grand was always setting up elaborate, weird, often disgusting stunts to prove a point, and that point was: “every man has his price.” But he didn’t make any money at it, actually he spent lots of money.
For Trump, as always, the point is simply winning. Since he hasn’t the faintest idea of how to win a presidential election, nor does he really want to (he just wants to win on his own terms), he’s falling into his natural bent of trying to discover “how much is it worth to you to get me to stop?” But he certainly gets a kick out of making a mockery of the whole system, and fools of everybody in it.
In effect, Trump is making the GOP establishment wade through a pool of excrement. As testimony to our eternal faith in human nature, growing numbers are refusing to do so. But more than enough remain to justify the effort. And the biggest joke of it is, he’s not paying them — they are going to have to pay him. At the very least, they’re going to pay all his bills. no matter what.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xg2v_T2XH8
He doesn’t need to do the power to do any of that. That’s the problem. He just needs to think he does.
I have argued that he and the Party that nominated him is no longer legitimate and should be treated as such. Don’t debate. Don’t answer questions based on his positions. Encourage a new party as a governing partner. Because if he loses, they will do an Obama and deny legislation and judge appointments.
Better to start over and Whiggify the GOP.
Ridge
You are 100% correct – don’t debate.
Debating Trump will just add to his legitimacy.
He is surrounded by pathological enablers — HRC will just be another enabler if she debates him.
Forcing Trump into a 1-on-1 debate under standard POTUS debate rules would further delegitimize him. I think the Debate Commission schedule should be honored by Clinton.
Trump suggested in his most recent statement on the debate issue that he would seek out changes in the debate rules and demand friendly moderators. Clinton should pull a Michael Corleone on those demands and respond with “You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. No changes in the rules, and a neutral debate host under a traditional format.”
Trump has very little leverage.
Newt Gingrich may have revealed the secret plan, when he observed that Trump was as qualified as Andrew Jackson for the job of President.
Trump agrees to drop out if they put his face on the $20 bill.
I hate to say it, but no matter what happens, it’s going to be really ugly and could be so for a very long time.
Although a lot of GOPers & GOP leaders have fled screaming from Trump, there’s still PLENTY of handlers, enablers and richy rich 1%ers backing this awful buffoon making a mockery of our entire nation. We have never been a Democracy, but we’ve been a more stable Republic. Not so much now.
The Donald’s now raking in buckeroo$ from his goon fans, and he’s not never ever gonna walk away from a sweet sweet GRIFT like that.
Trump is clearly pushing the limits of what he’ll say and do. Will there ever be some sort of “line” that he crosses that finally does him in? Stay tuned. I fear not.
But once he loses, hang onto your hats, my friends, as the ride will get much much bumpier. Rest assured that Trump, his goons, his handlers & enablers will shriek and scream about RIGGED RIGGED RIGGED, and he’ll try every trick in the book to de-legitimize Clinton.
AND the House will immediately impeach Clinton.
It’s gonna be really really ugly.
The GOP is no more prepared to or capable of “pivoting” than Trump is or can. This is who the GOP is now. This is it. I doubt it’ll get any better.
I shudder in dread thinking about 2020.
Main point being that since Bill Clinton first ran, the wingnuts have had preached to them, then fully bought and internalized it, the dogma that no Democrat can legitimately win the Presidency. And there’s no reason to think that would change at all win Trump goes down.
Leaving all your dire predictions looking quite reasonable, likely even.
Of course things won’t change – they’ll do a retread of the Obama “obstruct everything” playbook and see if, this time, it actually works.
They may have to lose a few more presidential elections before they change their tactics. In the meantime, they will essentially be encouraging the formation of an imperial presidency in which the president enacts policy primarily through executive/judicial appointments, international agreements, and executive orders. Rome, here we come.
Topping the list of American ignorance appears to be the intended function of the US Congress. Just another casualty of the “conservative” movement, I guess…
Ok. I’ve read, thought and cogitated. I’m also not particularly worried.
Trump and his peeps are, for the most part, chicken hawks. They talk a good game, they beat their chest, they yell a lot, show a lot of angst … and then go drink a beer.
I do not discount the possibility of the “lone wolf”. I DO discount the possibility of unit sized actions. If it were going to happen, it would have.
I have been continually amazed that Obama managed to not only survive, but to do it with no apparent significant assassination attempts. I realize full well that there could have been attempts that were foiled, but obviously, we didn’t hear of them.
Trump’s people are cowards. Short, sweet and simply cowards. I joined the Marines in ’70. A nephew joined the marines in ’85 (Enduring Freedom, Desert Storm, Afghanistan). Another nephew was 1st Air Cav, Irag and Afghanistan. If you want to worry, THESE are the guys you worry about. And they ain’t in the mood for revolution.
The shithead cowards who couldn’t be bothered to join when they could have been shot at? Bullshit. They didn’t have the balls in 2012, they don’t have the balls now.
Just more chicken hawk posturing.
You make some good points, but I’m not all that worried about some sort of armed insurrection. The Bundy Doofuses clearly illustrated how effective those types are.
My concern is more to the fact that the GOP’ll continue to ratchet up the crazy and go way out of their way to be obstructionist to the max.
And the loons’ll get lots of attention because ratings and money.
I’m just so sick of our utterly dysfunctional system that throws spotlights on and fawns all over the worst that our society can produce. All while mocking and dissing others who are really trying to build communities and make things better.
Very exhausting. I hate this election, and I don’t even own a tv.
Let them ratchet. The “GOP” is splintering in front of our eyes.
Yes, the “Establishment” is just as bad as the “insurgent” Trumpistas. Yes, the “moderates” are only worried about optics, not substance. Yes, the “rational” are making excuses instead of stands.
I have said (and much smarter others before me) that the R’s have built a house of cards. If ANY piece of that house is shown to be fake, the whole house falls. The Nazis/Klan/Identity types know the reality of the Republican party. The “country club” and “moderate” and “Establishment” types are in denial. WHEN Trump loses by 5,6,7,10,15 or whatever there will be a period of denial, arbitration, bargaining and the rest of the grief cycle. After that?
Who cares? The obstructionism is ALREADY at the max. Somehow, I don’t think HRC(EVIL, manipulative and consumative Triangulator) OR HRC(inept, stupid) is going to shrug and give up in the first few months.
The model output under 538’s model is very interesting today. Under the assumptions of the model:
What is interesting is his 20,000 model runs last night (the two page-wide normal distribution charts down the page). This is a broad distribution with no number of electoral votes having more than a 1.0% chance. 538’s estimated number of electoral votes is the value at vertical line that partitions the curve into halves 50%-50%. The multiple peaks in the distribution are interesting because they mark areas of the distribution where larger population states are added in. There is more area in the Trump end of the distribution than it appears because it is comparatively long tail with respect to the Clinton end of the distribution. This represents the GOP cobbling together of small rural states in the Midwest, South, and West.
In this run, the swing states all swung to Clinton. (Look at the Winding Path diagram.) Georgia and Arizona are the toss-up states. Trump’s firewall is South Carolina and Missouri.
Next up is Texas (R+4.8 in this run). That means that shifting 250,000 votes from Trump to Clinton or having 500,000 Texans sit it out wins Texas, the second largest electoral prize. Presumably, the underlying polls now have captured people who have factored in the information about the Bushes sitting out this election. And still there is an excess of 500,000 true Trump believers. This is no longer Bush’s Texas.
What doesn’t seem to be happening in Texas is movement away from Trump being movement toward Clinton. If GOTV could make that happen, that would suck resources into keeping Texas a firewall for the GOP. And just maybe they could fail. Yes, the Lyndon Johnson and Ralph Yarbrough and LLoyd Bentsen voters are mostly all dead now. But how is it that Trump has any Latino support? The ancient Tejas families as opposed to immigrants as Trump?
Poll analysis indicates more than predicted outcomes. It indicates where cost/benefit ratios favor campaigning — tipping point and voter power index states. These are two ways of looking at swing states. The probability that the state is the tipping point and the relative value winning of converting one voter there as compared to the typical national voter. Look where the campaign swings and surrogates focus most attention.
It is interesting that no polls are tracking the Green Party’s Stein but are tracking the Libertarian Party’s Johnson. That makes any estimates of spoiler effects unpredictable geographically. Is this an a priori decision or the results of screening questions in which Green Party selections are not numerous enough to get broken out from “Other”?
Here are the current outcome probabilities:
Clinton wins popular vote: 87.6%
Clinton wins electoral vote 85.1%
Clinton majority (over 50% of popular vote) 39.3%
Clinton landslide (over 10% margin over second place) 31.9%
Trump wins electoral vote 14.8%
Trump wins popular vote 12.3%
This is not even mid-August. Events and tricks can dramatically change perceptions of the candidates before Labor Day when the public turns to scrutinizing the election and hoping that December arrives soon.
To say that this Presidential election is Clinton’s to lose is to state the obvious.
Anybody got any ideas of how to put Texas into play?
And the wideness of the 20,000 trials of the electoral vote means that anything can happen this year. But that’s the case at this point most election years.
I’d be interested to see a poll of Texas, but it sounds like the real opportunities to flip red states are in the more urban/educated states in the South and perhaps Utah/Arizona via the combination of high Latino population in the latter and Mormons seemingly really, really hating Trump.
Among the “reach” states, Georgia looks like the prime target. Which makes some sense because of the whole college-educated white population (especially women) in northern ATL, along with the growing black and Latino population.
That seems like the state where the long-term demographic trends are potentially accelerated by the unique awfulness of Trump.
Kaine did do some campaigning in Texas yesterday or today though, as I recall. I suspect they’re waiting for more data and analysis before making a go of it there.
Arizona and Georgia already shoe up as flipped in 538’s latest model run. They are tossups. It’s worth looking at the graphics on 538’s page.
IMHO it is determination at the grassroots and a lot of hard work canvassing in not usually productive areas (Latino Republicans, for example) to peel of the unlikely persuadables. And strong get-out-the-vote activities everywhere across the state to get up those who already support Clinton. Showing up to vote is an easier sell if Texas is close to flipping. Is 4.8% in August close? I don’t know, but it would be worth Texans’ time finding out.
Kaine might be recruiting volunteers to gear up. The Clinton campaign is working a unity campaign with the state parties in all 50 states at last report. Big rallies in El Paso and Brownsville are possible. And certainly in San Antonoio.
Would love to see Democratic campaigning Louis Goehmert’s turf. He’s been given a free ride for too long.
My take on Tejas is that, while I get why Dems are excited about it (as they should be), it’s just not quite there yet.
I’m not even convinced GA and AZ can get there this year. We still have a little farther to crawl in both. Conceivable? Sure. Just not likely.
TX is a different beast though. The swing needed to grab it is too large for 2016. Now 2024 — that may be a different story.
Just saw that for the first time here (TPM quoting Hillary quoting a supporter).
Went straight to twitter thinking to invent the #hashtag and immediately get it on its way to trending.
Ha! Turns out it’s been around since October, apparently started by saner (or maybe less-insane?) GOPers.
PIVOT…PIVOTTT
My gawd…this man is such a joke, or his campaign is…You plan to ding HRC and you DON’T check to see who’s siting behind you?
Who is his prep people?
Mark Foley to Thomas Roberts:
Were Foley and Trump flipping pages?
Denise Oliver Velez at Daily Kos points out that the choice of Wilmington NC for dropping the Second Amendment line was calculated.
In 1898, a white Democratic Party mob seeking to unseat a fusion party inter-racial city council burned down most of the black neighborhoods in the city and many black-owned businesses and institutions. They were armed; this coup might be called in the day a “Second Amendment remedy”. It was also the launch of terrorist actions in North Carolina to enforce Jim Crow laws.
If you remember, Donald Jr. retraced Ronald Reagan’s movements and spoke in Philadelphia MS stumping for his dad.
Yes, Trump is testing us…in August.
And there is an inflection point in the 538 model today; Trump is no longer dropping like a stone. Popular vote estimate still in the 40’s but in less than enough states to capture the electoral college.
The 538 model is putting a lot of weight into the Selzer tracking poll, apparently. I haven’t really been following national numbers, but they have been all over the place and seem to be much more sensitive to the news cycle.
It would be extremely disturbing if Trump’s more explicitly fascist statements are consolidating support but I’ll wait and see.
“in the weeds” explanation of how and why that single poll moved the average as much as it did; and also how, as a result, that short-term fluctuation may mean fairly little.
I’m too lazy to link, but Silver’s got an explainer on 538 somewhere.
The long story short is that Clinton was something like + double digits during primary season in this poll. After a summer hiatus, the poll comes back with her +5. To be honest, it reveals a weakness in the model — were they really heavily weighting polls taken from when the candidates weren’t even selected yet?
On one hand, I’d get it if you have a model like Wang’s — there’s just not a lot of fresh state polling so you have to go with what’s available. But there’s been tons of national polling, and a handful of trackers, too. So I’m a little befuddled.
Even so, Clinton’s regressed chances of winning went from ~90% to ~85% according to 538. This probably should have been done anyways, given that they had South Carolina rated as a swing state earlier this week. And maybe there’s fudge factor involved.
So this single poll ended up having a larger-than-normal influence on the model output. Silver speculated this would likely dissipate with additional subsequent poll data (“regression to the mean”).
Have a good vacation 🙂
“…how do you do that without giving the appearance that you’re using the organs of the state to influence the election?”
Not to go all meta on you, I have no answer to the question, as posed, in this context. But the important thing is the fact that the question needs to be posed.
We got where we are by letting people off the hook.
“How you do that” is by drawing a bright line and saying “this line will not be crossed, by anyone, at any time, for any reason.”
The first time you let someone cross a line and say “oh, well, we’ll overlook it just this once”, you’ve not only obliterated every line you ever drew; you have made it impossible to draw any future lines.
Too many lines have been crossed; it is too late to enforce anything. Only after a complete break of continuity and a fresh start might it again become possible to make rules and make them stick; but even the fresh start would have to be made by (essentially) universal consent, which means that it is at least a human lifetime away.
Yeah, we are an ahistorical bunch here.
Indeed. People demanding show trials of the last administration should study the history of the late-stage Roman Republic.
A Hitlerian candidate will say what needs to be said and do what needs to be done. If the mountains of polls look bad, then other tacks need to be taken for Der Trumper.
The “Conservative” Movement and its captured political party has now spent the better part of a decade lying about vote fraud and engaging in a national vote suppression effort. The effect of this is to cement in the minds of rural and suburban whites with drivers licenses that they are the only legitimate voters, and that urban areas are stealing elections and “Taking their county away!”
So the way has been prepared by the GOP for delegitimizing this election, Trump is simply building on the GOoP’s work of the past decade. Of course it goes without saying that a Hitlerian strongman candidate is anti-democratic, but Trump is simply leading what the “conservative” movement created. It appears that Trump’s only path to the WH is via the electoral college, but again the GOoP has paved the way there as well, as the Stolen Election of 2000 demonstrates. As I recall, Hitler’s party never commanded a majority either, despite his obvious popularity with masses of voters. Our electoral college is the “parliamentary system” of Germany, 1933.
Interestingly, Hitler faced a hostile press in his democratic rise, with opposition journalists calling him a “political criminal”. Our useless corporate media will not have that amount of backbone (or editorial leeway, ha-ha.)
So now our Trumper now flirts with being a political criminal, “joking” about his opponent being assassinated by patriots who don’t want to lose their country (and phony manufactured gun “rights”). Typical rightwing “humor”, this seems par for the course and not much of a deviation from what we have seen for years and years from the vile American “conservative” movement. Will this rhetoric remain “joking”? A house divided against itself cannot stand, to quote one of the GOoP’s proclaimed own (and if ever anyone was turning over in their grave it’s Father Abraham).
How long can this country go on like this, with ever increasing numbers of irreconcilables? It’s a real question. Has our house actually been built upon the sand, to keep the “house” metaphor going…
Problem being: there are disturbed, rightwing nutjobs out there lacking the ability to recognize Trump’s allegedly “joking” tone, or absorb the “clarification” that what he said didn’t really mean what he said (all that excuse/”explanation” being utter bullshit as far as I’m concerned; they heard it just the way he meant them to hear it!).
Lots of them!
Lopsided Housing Rebound Leaves Millions of People Out in the Cold
The housing recovery that began in 2012 has lifted the overall market but left behind a broad swath of the middle class, threatening to create a generation of permanent renters and sowing economic anxiety and frustration for millions of Americans.
Home prices rose in 83% of the nation’s 178 major real-estate markets in the second quarter, according to figures released Wednesday by the National Association of Realtors. Overall prices are now just 2% below the peak reached in July 2006, according to S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices.
But most of the price gains, economists said, stem from a lack of fresh supply rather than a surge of buyers. The pace of new home construction remains at levels typically associated with recessions, while the homeownership rate in the second quarter was at its lowest point since the Census Bureau began tracking quarterly data in 1965 and the share of first-time home purchases remains mired near three-decade lows.
The lopsided recovery has shut out millions of aspiring homeowners who have been forced to rent because of damaged credit, swelling student loans, tough credit standards and a dearth of affordable homes, economists said.
In all, some 200,000 to 300,000 fewer U.S. households are purchasing a new home each year than would during normal market conditions, estimates Ken Rosen, chairman of the Fisher Center of Real Estate and Urban Economics at the University of California at Berkeley.
“I don’t think we are in a normal housing market,” said Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the National Association of Realtors. “The losers are clearly the rising rental population that isn’t able to participate in this housing equity appreciation. They are missing out on [a big] source of middle-class wealth.”
The real GOP Crime Bosses are NOT opening their checkbooks for Ferret Head:
Trump Has a SuperPAC Problem
So far, pro-Clinton outside groups have out-fundraised pro-Trump PACs by more than 10 to 1.
by Anne Kim
August 10, 2016 1:46 PM
In perhaps another indicator of flagging enthusiasm for Donald Trump, outside groups have raised just $9.7 million so far in support of the GOP presidential nominee. In sharp contrast, outside groups have collected more than $110 million on behalf of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
Great America PAC, the largest of the pro-Trump PACs, reported raising $5,073,027 as of July 21. But its war chest is dwarfed by both the largest anti-Trump SuperPAC, Our Principles, which has amassed $19 million; and by Priorities USA Action, the largest pro-Clinton PAC, which reported funds of $100,040,923.