https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/us/politics/trump-election-campaign-fundraising.html Five months ago, President Trump’s re-election campaign had a huge financial edge over Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s. The Times conducted an extensive review of how the Trump team spent lavishly to show how that advantage evaporated... ---------- Maybe they (RNC) lined their pockets ? That phrase well paid staff sticks out to me considering I always thought staff people on a political campaign were not pay very well and only the top people had a full time job...everybody else were just interns, part-time and volunteers. For Example...they spent the following millions and that's not all of it considering they've spent 800 million dollars of the original 1.1 billion dollars: 100 million - TV Ads that includes the below money spent on the Superbowl 21 million - Extra Legal Costs (Impeachment defense is not cheap) 11 million - Two Super Bowl Ads (Better spent had he put the ads in the Stanley Cup. Canada's Grey Cup told them to get lost) 6 million - Donor Mementos (I'm not sure what this is) 4 million - Into Trump Family Businesses (Extra security ?) 1 million - TV ads in D.C. Area (Why ?...he doesn't like D.C.) 325k - Scrapped RNC Convention Plans 156k - Airplanes to pull Trump Banners (over Nascar...Democratic cities ?) That Cuban military Dress that Melanie wore at the RNC wasn't cheap...several thousand dollars but she did look good. Anyways, what happen to the rest of the money considering the above numbers does not add up to 800 million dollars ? Online / Digital ads can't cost that much to represent the remainder dollars ? wrbtrader