He has self Funded the Primary. My challenge stands for #neverTrump to prove he promised to self-fund the General. And Please a Primary is not a General election no matter how much #neverTrump wants a false talking point. Unless and until there is proof that 1 A primary is a General Election and 2 Trump promised to self-fund the General election this is a just another #neverTrump/democrat lie.
Sorry, Mech, I just don't buy into the notion that outside funding from donors in the primary is bad, but funding in the general is good, or, at best, is a necessary evil.
I can make the argument that funding in the primary "to buy one off" is more of a gamble than funding in the general "to buy one off".
In the primary, there were multiple candidates to support, and by donating to them you ran the "risk", with 17-to-1 odds there would be a "reward".
Now, the odds drop to 2-to-1, less "risk" for the eventual "reward".
To make the assumption that the primary was for "buying off" and the general is for more "altruist" purposes isn't a very strong argument.
I won't accuse any candidate, in the general or the primary of being "bought off" unless evidence surfaces to the contrary.
The accusation that Cruz and others were beholden to their donors, and Trump's donors are beholden to him just doesn't wash.
They are all getting donations from the same pool of players.
I had always said that Trump's self funding in the primary would be repaid as a loan.
I have also said that he would require donations to run in the general, to be competitive.
I was blasted from here to Jupiter for saying so.
My saying was "just wait and see, and watch who donates".
We have waited and we see who is donating.
No surprise, frankly.
The politically active with money yesterday are the same politically active with money today.