Trump “I’ll spend whatever money I have”

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has revealed the possibility of putting private money in the campaign. With the US presidential election approaching two months in the future, the election campaign is heating up.

President Trump met with reporters on the 8th (local time) just before boarding Air Force One (the presidential plane) heading to Florida and was asked if he would spend his own money on the campaign, and replied: ” If I must, I will. ” And he added: “Whatever it takes, we will use it,” he added. “We must win.” He stressed that “this election is the most important in the history of the United States.”

The comment came after reports of concern about the cost of the election in Trump’s presidential campaign. Earlier, Bloomberg News reported that President Trump had discussed how to spend $ 100 million (about 118.9 billion won) of compassion in the campaign to win the election, and the New York Times said that Trump’s electoral field I had already spent a lot of money and it was financially difficult. Reported content.

Trump Camp did not disclose the actual monthly fundraising amount for the campaign last month. On the other hand, Camp Joe Biden of the Democratic Party raised a whopping $ 366 million last month. For this reason, it is observed that the Trump camp is far behind the Biden camp in electoral fundraising.

President Trump said, “I don’t expect the need to use (private) because we have more, two or three times the last two months of the last (2016 presidential election).” Said. If necessary, private funds will be provided, but it was interpreted to mean that the current financing situation for the camps is not bad.

President Trump paid $ 66 million in private funds during the 2016 presidential election. Yet it is unprecedented for a sitting US president to offer private money for reelection. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index (BBI), President Trump’s net worth is $ 2.7 billion, $ 300 million less than last year. Trump Camp has spent more than $ 800 million so far. Biden Camp was reported to have spent $ 414 million through July.