Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Report: McCain Nearly Quit Race In July.



TPM:


This can't be the kind of story that John McCain wants out there. In a new
GQ write-up on how the one-time frontrunner's campaign fell into the doldrums, a source says that McCain almost dropped out of the race back in early July.

"As [longtime McCain aide Mark] Salter later confided to a top adviser, McCain was ready to quit the campaign then and there," the article alleges. "Salter talked him down as well."
At that point, the campaign was taking a lot of heat over fundraising problems, Iraq-related gaffes, and the failure of the immigration bill.

And the Republicans:

Fred Thompson (since June 4):
$12.7M raised
$7.1M cash-on-hand
$5.7M spent

Rudy Giuliani:
$10.0M raised
$11.6M cash-on-hand
$13.3M spent

John McCain:
$5.0M raised
$1.6M cash-on-hand
$5.7M spent

Mitt Romney:
$9.5M raised + $8.5M personal loan
$9.2M cash-on-hand
$21.3M spent

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Well when is he going to quit?