Tim Scott's campaign spending money faster than it is making it
Scott is the only Republican candidate who has outspent his fundraising totals, according to Axios, spending 109% of his campaign chest. The next closest is Gov. Doug Burgum , who has spent 69%. The Republican front-runner, former President Donald Trump, has only spent 37% of his war chest.
Scott's spending has been linked to mysterious companies with no online presence, according to the New York Times. The campaign has sent roughly $5.3 million to the companies that have no previous work in campaign finance and sport addresses that lead to a Staples in a mall. They were only set up months before Scott launched his campaign.
A Scott campaign spokesman told the Washington Examiner the money spent on independent groups and contractors who provide services ranging from advertisements to travel is clearly laid out in Federal Election Commission reports. “These are independent companies we contract with to provide services to the campaign including managing multiple consultants," Matt Gorman, a senior communications adviser for Scott's campaign, in a statement to the New York Times."Payments to those companies are disclosed like all others on our F.E.C. report.
However, momentum in early states hasn't translated to national polls yet. According to an early August Reuters/Ipsos poll, he was polling at just 2%, 45 percentage points behind the front-runner. He's also lagging behind DeSantis , former Vice President Mike Pence, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley.
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