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Unless I win, I will consider this a big, fat, beautiful — and, by the way, very expensive — waste of time.
— Donald Trump, quoted by the Washington Post.
$20 million
Amount Bernie Sanders’s campaign has raised over the last month, “an enormous haul that backs up the campaign’s assertion that it will have enough money for a long, hard-fought nominating fight against Hillary Clinton,” the New York Times reports. Politico: “More than 770,000 people gave to the Vermont senator’s bid in January, with online contributions averaging just $27, the campaign said. And Sanders has so far received more than 3.25 million contributions — more than any presidential campaign at this point in the cycle ever.”
$400 million
Amount the Koch brothers’ donor network spent last year, and is well on its way to spending an unprecedented $889 million supporting right-wing politics and causes during the 2016 cycle, The Hill reports.
At this point, my gut suggests that by the time we get deep into the process, Trump will appear to have the support of the populist, less ideological third of the GOP, roughly where he is now; Cruz will have consolidated conservatives and roughly one third of the party; a conventional candidate (Bush, Christie, Kasich, or Rubio) will be pulling about a quarter, with the remaining fifth up in the air. That spells a contested convention.
60%
Donald Trump’s unfavorable rating, making him — if nominated — the most unpopular candidate to be nominated from either of the two major parties going back to the 1992 election, Gallup finds.
250,000
Number of Iowans who “are expected to attend caucuses on a relatively mild Monday night and render judgment on insurgent candidates who would bar Muslims from the country (Donald J. Trump), oppose concessions to Democrats (Senator Ted Cruz of Texas) and pursue a high-tax, big-government agenda (Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont). Voters are poised to bring order to the race, or reorder politics, as in no other recent election,” the New York Times reports.
22
The number of emails with material demanding one of the highest levels of security classification found on Hillary Clinton’s unsecured home server, the Obama administration confirmed, the AP reports.
It’s true you have better hair than I do, But I get more pussy than you do. (Click.)
– Phone message left by current Republican Party presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on the voicemail of Tucker Carlson, the rightwing pundit and Swanson Foods heir, after Carlson criticized Trump’s hair on the CNN show “Crossfire” in 1991.
$25,000
As of Nov. 16, amount SarahPAC had given to congressional Republicans this election cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. In the same period it spent 15 times as much — $394,000 — on fundraising, and almost $72,000 on administrative costs, such as accountants, lawyers, travel and website management.
