vultures: Just as a poor showing in the early-voting states may help winnow the presidential field, a poor fundraising performance will get the vultures circling, according to CNN. This is also the first chance in six months to find out who has been paying for the tens of millions of dollars of super PAC ads that have blanketed the country. The big reveal at this point in the race: cash on hand, which tells observers how much money the political action committees have to spend in states beyond Iowa and New Hampshire -- and whether they can run a national campaign. The groups can accept and spend unlimited amounts of cash, but federal election rules means we haven't seen the donor rolls since midsummer. It means that he is free from the corrupting influence of lobbyists and billionaires who treat their candidate as "puppets" -- but the claim as of October was not true: Trump has received millions of dollars in donations that are funding things like Trump hats and Trump T-shirts. Here are eight questions that could be answered this weekend: How much is Donald Trump spending on his own behalf Read More There have been few claims more fact-checked -- and unambiguously deemed incorrect -- than Trump frequent claim that he is "self-funding" his campaign.
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