{"id":81137,"date":"2015-12-04T11:51:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T19:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=81137"},"modified":"2019-06-20T07:44:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T15:44:57","slug":"trumps-rise-without-traditional-campaign-spending-existential-threat-to-political-election-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=81137","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Rise Without Traditional Campaign Spending \u2018Existential Threat\u2019 to \u2018Political Election Industry\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Breitbart<\/a>: Donald Trump\u2019s ability to remain the undisputed GOP frontrunner in December even though he has hardly spent any money on traditional television advertising that enriches consultants in the permanent political class is why he represents an \u201cexistential threat\u201d to the established political order. In the newest CNN\/ORC poll that was released Friday, Trump has a commanding 20-point lead, which reportedly marks \u201cTrump\u2019s highest support and widest lead since he first announced his candidacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump may indeed be establishing a blueprint that other candidates could follow in the future to put many in the stale permanent political class\u2014many of whom are career mercenaries who care more about using politics to line their pockets than the interests of the candidates they purportedly support\u2014out of business. He even mocked Jeb Bush this week on the campaign trail in Georgia for wasting millions on television ads that have not helped the former Florida governor\u2019s flailing poll numbers and campaign.<\/p>\n

NBC News reported this week that Trump has spent the least amount of money ($227,000) on television commercials during this election cycle. Even more astonishing is the fact that establishment GOP candidates Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, John Kasich, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) have an 18-1 advantage on television ads than the three outsider\/non-politician candidates that are leading in nearly every poll\u2014Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Dr. Ben Carson. Bush, who tops the list, registered just 3% in the latest CNN\/ORC poll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Breitbart: Donald Trump\u2019s ability to remain the undisputed GOP frontrunner in December even though he has hardly spent any money on traditional television advertising that enriches consultants in the permanent political class is why he represents an \u201cexistential threat\u201d … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29752],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t