Rubio on Trump’s Pathetic Fundraising: ‘He’ll Need More Than That’

Published June 21, 2016 8:15pm ET



Republican senators shrugged off the potential ramifications of Donald Trump’s fundraising deficit Tuesday and laughed about the possibility of the businessman self-funding his campaign as promised.

“It’s up to him to decide [whether to self-fund], it’s his money,” Marco Rubio of Florida told THE WEEKLY STANDARD in the Capitol. Rubio acknowledged that Trump’s finances were in a sorry state, with less than $1.3 million cash on hand at the start of June compared to Hillary Clinton’s $42 million.

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