Look at that, $16.5 million in 2012, $5400 so far this year!
Suprised not at the RJC, surprised that Trump keeps stepping on his dick. Really. A little. When he won Indiana he effectively won the Republican nomination and he shut his goddamned mouth for the first time since September, 2015 and actually took the lead in most of the polls over Clinton. Some American voters, NOT ME, rewarded the Nazi for winning. Happens.
It seems to me he zipped it, at least with the insults and controversy, for a couple weeks. Long enough to get a quite nice bump in the polls. I guess Trump, like nature, abhors a vacuum though, like he was lost for words when he didn't have to accuse Ted Cruz' father of being behind the Kennedy assassination anymore, like "Whaddya mean there's nobody left to insult?," but then he found himself, you know? and it's just been one bird after another, a flock, hitting the air pump, just one unforced error after another. As far back as I can remember it was the judge, the Star of Davis tweet, Saddam Hussein, the "mischievous grin" over his seriousness of being president, just one fucking fuck-up after another. He has been 4-11 points behind Clinton ever since. So, it does surprise me a little. Is he subconsciously self-sabotaging?...Ugh, I don't want to even try to get inside that nut's head, but Ari Fleischer is right, he keeps making it harder for people who want to be for him-Well, a pox on them anyway.-to be for him. I kept thinking he'd stop drawing straws long before it got to the last straw with the Fleischers, and there's still time for them to kiss and make nice!, but he keeps drawing those straws. "Sad!" Pause. Pause. Pause. NOT!
These donors’ reluctance to give is another sign of the unprecedented resistance to Mr. Trump within the party, more than two months after he became the presumptive nominee and just a week before the party’s nominating convention.
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Several RJC board members had previously donated to Mr. Trump’s primary rivals and have turned their focus to congressional races since he effectively clinched the nomination in May.
In 2012, the current roster of RJC board members donated at least $16.5 million to GOP nominee Mitt Romney ’s campaign and super PAC, and at least a half-dozen were leading fundraisers for him, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of campaign filings. These RJC members had given Mr. Trump only $5,400 through May.
The RJC also transferred $4,000 it raised on Mr. Romney’s behalf to the former Massachusetts governor’s political committee in the spring of 2012.
“My sense is that he has a blind spot when it comes to recognizing how his comments or actions can offend people,” said Ari Fleischer, an RJC board member and former White House press secretary. “He keeps making it harder for people who want to be for him to be for him.”
Donald Trump’s Comments Intensify Concerns Among Republican Donors
Tweet backlash, comments about Saddam Hussein highlight continued resistance to GOP candidate
(WSJ)
These donors’ reluctance to give is another sign of the unprecedented resistance to Mr. Trump within the party, more than two months after he became the presumptive nominee and just a week before the party’s nominating convention.
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Several RJC board members had previously donated to Mr. Trump’s primary rivals and have turned their focus to congressional races since he effectively clinched the nomination in May.
In 2012, the current roster of RJC board members donated at least $16.5 million to GOP nominee Mitt Romney ’s campaign and super PAC, and at least a half-dozen were leading fundraisers for him, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of campaign filings. These RJC members had given Mr. Trump only $5,400 through May.
The RJC also transferred $4,000 it raised on Mr. Romney’s behalf to the former Massachusetts governor’s political committee in the spring of 2012.
“My sense is that he has a blind spot when it comes to recognizing how his comments or actions can offend people,” said Ari Fleischer, an RJC board member and former White House press secretary. “He keeps making it harder for people who want to be for him to be for him.”
