Donald Trump on Tuesday urged the Republican Party to start supporting his presidential campaign, and said he’s finding it easier to get support from Democrats.
“I need support from the Republicans. I mean, in some ways I get more support from the Democrats than I do the Republicans,” the presumed GOP nominee said on “Fox and Friends” Tuesday morning.
Trump corrected himself immediately, saying “some [Republicans] have been phenomenal” and that he has “got so much tremendous support from congressman and senators.”
“But it would be nice to have full support, from people that are in office, I mean full verbal support,” Trump said.
He said he had a good fundraising weekend. According to Trump, he raised “about $12 million” over the weekend in Texas and Arizona, but for the Republican Party, not himself.
“I can go a different route. I can just spend my own money,” Trump explained. “I have a lot of cash. I think I win that way.”
A Federal Election Commission filing released late Monday night showed that Trump’s campaign finished May with a strikingly low $1.3 million in the bank. In May, the month he became the GOP’s presumed nominee, he raised just $3.1 million. During the same month, the presumed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton raised $26.4 million.
However, Trump dismissed the notion that he will try to raise and spend as much money as Clinton.
“I’m not looking to spend all this money. And I hear people spend a billion dollars. Politicians are the only ones who can spend a billion dollars. Hillary Clinton will spend a billion dollars of Wall Street money and money from the Middle East.”
Trump said Clinton “got money from people that you don’t want her to have money from, and — but she’ll spend more than a billion dollars. I don’t want to do that.”
In New Hampshire and other primary states, Trump said he “spent a tiny fraction what other people spent” and “won in a landslide.”
“I like that much better,” the billionaire businessman said.
