Trump’s persistent cash flow problem has been an issue at least since Joe Biden dropped out of the race in July.
From the October 25, 2024 article:
Traditional campaigns rely on paid staff to put together a small army of volunteers, who use various records, like voter registration, to identify and contact potential supporters. Pro-Trump super PACs, by contrast, are simply paying people to knock on doors, usually between $20 to $40 an hour. Musk has rolled out a glitchy app that’s supposed to steer canvassers toward “low propensity voters” who may lean toward Trump. As the Washington Post reported, however, the app struggles in “rural areas with low connectivity,” precisely where many of these Trump voters live. Reuters has reported that canvassers have fallen well short of their goals, persistently missing their assigned targets in swing states. A Guardian report identified rampant fraud in the operation, with as many as a quarter of alleged “door knocks” in two states marked as fakes. As the Guardian pointed out, though, the vendors paid to coordinate canvassing have a disincentive to sniff out fake door knocks, because they themselves get paid “by the door.” If they discover that their canvassers falsely inflated their numbers, they may owe money back, giving them good reason to look the other way instead. (America PAC has already fired two vendors.)
