When Kris Jenner and Caitlyn Jenner first got together, it was Kris’s business sense and management which ensured that their family would be financially secure. Caitlyn has never had any business sense or ability to manage her own finances. It was always Kris who took care of all of it. Well, big surprise: Caitlyn Jenner’s sad little gubernatorial campaign has run out of money. Caitlyn is running against the incumbent Gavin Newsom, and even in a state with buckets of wealthy GOP donors, Caitlyn can’t raise money.
Caitlyn Jenner’s gubernatorial campaign has piled up debt, filings show, as the celebrity and former Olympian struggles to make headway in California’s recall race. From the launch of Jenner’s candidacy through the end of July, the campaign raised about $747,000 and spent some $910,000, leaving her campaign with about $156,000 in unpaid bills and roughly $21,000 on hand for the race’s critical final stretch.
More than a quarter of that money has flowed to fundraising platform WinRed and to enlist the services of former Trump campaign hand Brad Parscale and former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer. Jenner’s fundraising lags behind former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer and radio host Larry Elder. All of the replacement candidates are well behind Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has raised more than $40 million to fight the recall and can collect donations without contribution limits.
Jenner’s campaign has paid about $182,000 to WinRed, a fundraising platform that former President Donald Trump used and remains popular among conservative candidates. Like Trump, Jenner’s campaign augmented its haul through WinRed by auto-checking a box that signs supporters up for recurring donations. That cut would be high for contributions, but Jenner is also using WinRed to sell merchandise, from T-shirts to dog leashes.
The campaign has sent about $67,000 to Parscale Strategy, LLC, the firm run by former Trump campaign strategist Parscale. It spent $25,000 on Fleischer’s media strategy company Ari Fleischer Communications. Among Parscale Strategy’s reported spending was a $1,800 “staff meeting” at Nobu, a fancy Malibu restaurant, and $1,300 for a limousine service that ferried Jenner to Los Angeles meetings.
Not only is Caitlyn’s campaign broke AF, she committing campaign fraud by misspending funds on stupid sh-t like “meetings at Nobu” and “taking a limo everywhere.” And on top of that, people who only wanted to donate to her sad campaign one time only are probably being forced into multiple donations because of a purposefully glitchy fundraising platform. Which constitutes campaign fraud as well, because that’s ridiculous. Jenner’s campaign manager spoke to Politico and basically insisted that they’d have enough money for the final stretch but I sincerely doubt it. Jenner is incompetent, lazy and stupid. What a f–king joke that she thought she could do this part-time in between tee times.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Caitlyn’s IG.
