{"id":60159,"date":"2016-12-13T13:08:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T17:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=60159"},"modified":"2016-12-13T13:08:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T17:08:36","slug":"hillary-clintons-losing-campaign-cost-a-record-1-2b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=60159","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton\u2019s losing campaign cost a record $1.2B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/untitled-94.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60162\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/untitled-94.jpg\" alt=\"untitled-94\" width=\"664\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/untitled-94.jpg 664w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/untitled-94-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New York Post<\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton and her supporters spent a record $1.2 billion for her losing presidential campaign \u2014 twice as much as the winner, Donald Trump, according to the latest records.<\/p>\n<p>The president-elect, who confounded critics during the campaign by saying there was no need to raise or spend $1 billion or more, ended up making do with $600 million.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton\u2019s expensive machine tore through $131.8 million in just the final weeks, finishing with about $839,000 on hand as of Nov. 28.<\/p>\n<p>Team Trump spent $94.5 million in the home stretch \u2014 from Oct. 20 to Nov. 28 \u2014 and had $7.6 million left.<\/p>\n<p>The figures include all spending by the campaigns, PACs and party committees.<\/p>\n<p>Trump contributed $66 million from his own pocket, $34 million less than he estimated he would shell out.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Parscale, Trump\u2019s digital director, credited strategic last-minute investments with helping propel the political newcomer to victory.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign and the Republican Party spent about $5 million in get-out-the-vote digital advertising targeted in the final few days at Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Florida.<\/p>\n<p>It proved critical: Some of those states were won by razor-thin margins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou think, what if we hadn\u2019t spent that?\u201d Parscale said. \u201cWe might not have won.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last June, Trump shrugged off skeptics who said he needed to spend $1 billion to have a chance to win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no reason to raise that,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just don\u2019t think I need nearly as much money as other people need because I get so much publicity. I get so many invitations to be on television. I get so many interviews, if I want them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/12\/09\/hillary-clintons-losing-campaign-cost-a-record-1-2b\/\">http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/12\/09\/hillary-clintons-losing-campaign-cost-a-record-1-2b\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}