Trump’s Campaign Finances Are Strained As Legal Peril Mounts

“Donald Trump said former Rep. Liz Cheney is a ‘war hawk’ who should be fired upon, as he raged against one of his most prominent intra-party critics while campaigning Thursday night in Arizona,” CNN reports. Said Trump: “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK?

“Kamala Harris’ fundraising operation has been so dominant that she has brought in more new donors than Donald Trump every single day heading into the final stretch of the election,” Politico reports. “The vice president’s financial advantage is well-known, but most of the attention has gone to the candidates’ respective money totals.

“Less than a week before Election Day, third-party presidential candidates still present an unknown factor in key swing states where dozens of Electoral College votes rest on the knife’s edge and their getting even 1% could make all the difference,” ABC News reports. “Democrats, traumatized after third-party contenders ate at Hillary Clinton’s vote share in 2016, launched a full court press early in the election cycle to kneecap groups like No Labels and candidates like the Green Party’s Jill Stein, Robert F.

“Four years ago, President Donald Trump used his bully pulpit to spread lies about the election, leading his supporters to act on their belief in mass voter fraud and eventually attack the U. S. Capitol,” NBC News reports. “With days to go before the 2024 election, Trump and his allies are running a similar playbook, priming his voters to believe the election may be ‘rigged.’” “In addition to domestic disinformation campaigns, foreign government influence operations, overseas terrorist groups and domestic extremists are all simultaneously trying to exploit the election for their own gain.”

“Donald Trump is lagging Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania early voting with a critical and once-reliably Republican constituency: seniors,” Politico reports. “It’s a warning sign for the former president that reflects early vote data and polling across the battlegrounds, after Republicans won the senior vote in each of the last five presidential elections.”

“Donald Trump is planning to cast his vote on Election Day despite having previously said he would vote early,” the AP reports.