self-funding
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Billionaire former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has reached the polling threshold to qualify for the New Hampshire debate, but because he’s self-funding his campaign, he’s not going to hit the donor requirement.
However, it was Bloomberg, who has spent over $460 million self-funding his candidacy, who first raised this issue.
“It’s important for us to try to become an established Premier League club by sticking to our philosophies because we’re the only self-funding club on this level,” he said.
Georgia, like a number of other so-called perennial battleground states, is seeing a huge towards full-time staff, ads and office from the self-funding billionaire candidate Bloomberg has ploughed more than half a billion dollars into his campaign.
In Bloomberg’s case, the number is $350 million since the fall — roughly 10 times as much as any candidate who’s not self-funding.
That figure does not include Frost’s self-funding through a loan but does include donations less than $99 each, although donors’ names and their amounts are not listed in the reports.