Trump in trouble: Cash and voter shortfalls
The Beat with Ari Melber
Ari Melber, MS NOW
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🗓️ 8 April 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Ari Melba here on this Monday and Eclipse Day and we'll get to the Eclipse and some other fun stuff through the course of the hour together. |
| 0:07.0 | We do begin with some warning signs for Donald Trump. |
| 0:10.0 | The re-election campaign faces headwinds now in two key metrics, money and the votes |
| 0:14.8 | they're going to need to gather. For finances, Donald Trump's being out |
| 0:18.8 | raised by the current president, Joe Biden, by a wide margin. This is a big part of politics. You know that from |
| 0:24.2 | falling the news and primaries, but sometimes all the personality and hijinks and |
| 0:28.6 | other things overshadow just the raw way this works. |
| 0:32.5 | Biden now pulling in 90 million last month. |
| 0:35.2 | Trump only doing two-thirds of that. |
| 0:37.0 | And there is an incumbent advantage usually. |
| 0:38.8 | We'll see if Biden benefits from that. |
| 0:40.3 | But when you're running against the current president, |
| 0:42.1 | you want to be equal |
| 0:42.9 | or above them in money if you can. |
| 0:44.9 | Biden's also more than doubled Trump's cash on hand. |
| 0:48.8 | So I just showed you the new recent hall when you look overall what they have well the disparity is even |
| 0:54.0 | starker now you may have heard you may know Donald Trump certainly knows why there is |
| 0:59.1 | this stark disparity part of it might be a enthusiasm gap among donors the other part is the |
| 1:04.8 | very unusual unprecedented situation that defendant Trump is in he is trying to run |
| 1:09.9 | to recapture the White House but he's sitting on over a half a billion dollars in |
| 1:13.8 | combined legal fees debts penalties however you want to bundle it all |
| 1:19.4 | together. Trump has hosted a billionaire-packed fundraiser. |
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