Trump is the guy at a restaurant desperate for someone else at the table to pick up the check. A presidential race costs upwards of a billion dollars even if you already have a ground game in place as Hillary does. Trump does not.
Best estimates are that Trump has three hundred to four hundred million in liquid assets. Trump is too cheap to spend much of that. He has loaned about ten million to his campaign, and paid about 3 million back to himself for use of his plane, hotel space and banquet halls.
He needs the Republican party to fund his ground game. To get that he has started to kiss ass. On his website he has now posted a replacement for Obamacare, virtually identical to that of Paul Ryan, the titular head of the party. As recently as the last debate his full plan was to make insurance companies compete on a national basis.
The groveling has only begun. He may keep his pledge, and not have a SuperPac directly linked to his campaign, but he will look to Karl Rove, the Koch brothers and others to fund ads attacking Hillary. Trump is both the prince and the pauper.
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