Caitlyn Jenner’s disastrous gubernatorial campaign is even more disastrous than we thought.
According to recent filings, from the launch of her campaign through the end of July, Jenner has raised about $747,000 from roughly 1,500 donors. Not bad for a candidate polling at just 3%.
But here’s where things take an ugly turn.
Because despite raising almost $750,000, Jenner has been burning through cash. She’s spent roughly $910,000, leaving her with more than $150,000 in debt. And the election is still over a month away.
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That puts her in a terrible position.
To make matters worse, her Democratic opponent, Gov. Gavin Newsom, has raised over $40 million and counting.
In addition to fundraising, Jenner has been peddling campaign merch, including beer koozies, pint glasses, and dog leashes, to try and earn extra money.
But none of it seems to be enough to pay for her lavish campaign expenses, which include $1,800 spent on a “staff meeting” held at a fancy sushi bar in Malibu, and $1,300 spent on a limousine service that carted her around Los Angeles, according to filings.
Spokesperson Steven Cheung says the campaign isn’t concerned about its dire financial situation, insisting it has “robust” donors that will keep the operation “fully funded to enter the final stretch of the election with the necessary resources to end Gavin Newsom’s time as governor.”
Except that filings show the campaign is the exact opposite of “fully funded” and this is the final stretch of the election, with mail in voting starting mid-August ahead of a September 14 vote.
In other Jenner news, she’ll be missing a debate among other Republican candidates vying for Newsom’s job. The Richard Nixon Foundation will host a debate this evening that will include four GOP candidates: John Cox, Kevin Faulconer, Kevin Kiley and Doug Ose.
Jenner won’t be there, though, because she’s in Australia filming a reality show. But Cheung also doesn’t seem to think this will be a problem because she’s famous.
“Caitlyn has widespread name recognition,” he says, “to the tune of 99%, while other candidates need to spend large amounts of money to increase their name identification.”
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Mr. Stadnick
Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!
garbone100
very fishy
jcool
wait, wait, there’s a caitlyn for governor dog leash available? i need to get a dog.
Chrisk
Yeah, just a regular blue collar gal looking out for the people of California. LMAO
She’s just playing politician Barbie.
mateo
This is what happens when you’re no longer a part of the Kardashian clan, but you think you still are.
BaltoSteve
So much for Republikans being the party of financial responsibility! Haha!
Bengali
Besides the trash that is Brucie K, Larry Elder is another tool. Doesn’t believe there should be a minimum wage. That’s it’s too hard on businesses to offer anything close to a living wage. Typical BLACK Republican. Votes for policies that harm people of color. Tim Scott aka Gums of Eric Trump is the same way. Thinks he’s a star and ignores the fact that he’s anti-people of color.
BoomerMyles
Larry Elder is a race traitor Uncle Tom.
Mister P
I’m sure there are more clueless repugnants who can help the poor girl out.
cliche guevara
“Because despite raising almost $750,000, Jenner has been burning through cash. She’s spent roughly $910,000, leaving her with more than $150,000 in debt.”
Zero fiscal responsibility while preaching fiscal responsibility. yep… she’s a Republican.
KyleMichelSullivan
Just another selfish, entitled POS…
Cam
Republicans are bad with money, and they lie about it. Jenner is definitely a Republican.
OhPlease
He has no intention of winning a damned thing. It’s called a “diversionary stunt,” and he’s one of numerous candidates that have staged mock runs to eliminate competitors to “shape votes.” You’d know this if you had spent more than 10 minutes dealing with politicians. If you think this is bad, give it another 12 months. The political field is about to go late 1800s and the violence issues that are hinging on using the LGBT designation on both sides for political targeting are reprehensible. The right plans to use it to murder dissidents as “enemies of the state” ala WW2 Germany and the Soviets, the left has no plans whatsoever to assist the community in any shape or form other than exploiting gay causes for talking points.
startenout
She. She’s trash but we don’t misgender here.
BoomerMyles
Car “murdering” person. A 63 year old woman was killed due to what the police report states was Jenner’s “excessive speed”.
BoomerMyles
Just refer to this privileged piece of white trash as “Jenner”.
Iona Lexiss
Can we also reference the late teens and early 20s of the last century as another example of Conservative history repeating itself?
Cam
The right wing troll resurrects this old screename so it can “Both Sides” right wing bigotry and Jenner’s pathetic failure.
Essie
So, if she has “99% name recognition” why is she polling at only 3%? I would think that means 96% of those who know her dislike her. Or am I counting wrong?
Liquid Silver
Your calculations are perfect. Jenner is simply delusional.
Bengali
ITS name is recognizeable as a piece of attention seeking, car accident causing 1/2 human.
GrizzleyMichael
LOSER all the way. God I had this Celebrity Fitness book and there was a picture of Caitlin when she was Bruce Jenner wearing a Speedo, I am so glad that I through it in the recycling bin.
Bengali
She went from being an it to another it. Nothing human about the attention seeking monster.
I am 100% pro trans people. The Caitlyn Beast is something different. Likely offspring of Kellyanne’s great grandmother and Steve Bannon’s father.
Robert Bradley
This is the train wreck of our alphabet community. We will see her next Thursday…. Bitch, my Tuesday is booked. And not with you.
MacAdvisor
I am not sure Queerty understands how this election works. Newsom is not Caitlyn’s opponent. There are two different and separate votes. First, we vote on recalling Newsom. Should that fail — and it almost certainly will — then the process is over and he continues as governor. Only should the recall pass, is there a vote to replace him. Newsom can’t run in that race. Caitlyn would run in that race against several other opponents, none of which are Newsom. Thus, she isn’t running against Newsom. She can campaign for his recall, but that is a separate thing from running against him in an election as recalling Newsom doesn’t elect her.
Liquid Silver
Queerty probably doesn’t. Individuals here do.
I don’t really have a finger on the pulse of Californians at this point, but figure–something like you–that there’s a modest probability recall will fail (it currently polls at +2.5). Assuming it doesn’t, it means Democrats didn’t turn out, which means Republicans probably take the prize.
In that case…I have no idea who wins at this point. But I’m pretty sure Jenner isn’t it.
David Reid
You almost got it right. Two issues. Same day, same ballot.
“Only if the recall passes is a vote to replace him”.
IF Newsom is recalled then the 2nd question on ballot replaces him. The way you worded it would seem like a 2nd election would be held. I’m rooting for Jenner. Only because it will brand California republicans with that stain.
MacAdvisor
David Reid, I apologize if my remarks were unclear, but you are correct. There are two separate questions on the same ballot in the same election. The first is about the recall and the second only matters if the first passes. My point was Newsom is the direct subject of the first question, but is constitutionally bared from having any part of second question.
Cam
@Liquid Silver
The polls now have people wanting a recall running at negative 7 not a positive 2.5.
marshal phillips
She can’t even manage her own financial campaign affairs and wants to oust Governor Newsom?
Good luck with that! Just sayin’.
Harley
It is tragic. Do we really need to keep talking about it. (It being Jenner’s true pronoun).
MacAdvisor
No, her correct pronoun is “her.” That is the one she identifies as and that is the one any believer in gay civil rights would call her, even as we don’t respect her political views and opinions.
Hank31
@MacAdvisor This has absolutely nothing to do with gay civil rights.
AxelDC
This was just a vanity campaign to begin with. Jenner is polling at just 7% even if there’s a recall.
Bengali
I love the trans community. She’s not a member of it. She is an IT. A nothing. And I love calling her Brucie Kardashian. Rumor has it she despises it when people call her that.
BoomerMyles
AGREE!
LumpyPillows
if you love the trans community, I would respectfully suggest not misgendering her. Trash her policies all you want.
Hdtex
HE is a HE
justyouandi
I think that if Newsom loses in the recall election whichever of the other candidates has the most votes becomes the governor. I don’t think there is a second election. It’s one and done! And Larry Elder is polling far ahead of the other candidates.
Mack
Yep and all that surplus will go to give the rich a tax break so the state will go back into debt again.
Gerard David Jr
Well if you’d watch the final episodes of The Kardashians you’d see Chris Jenna talking to Caitlin because he was bored during the epidemic and didn’t know what to do with himself and she told him to start a YouTube channel on cooking. And you saw a brief clip of the show so I guess he decided to run for governor cuz he had nothing else to do all day then ruin the state of California because of his beliefs of no health care for the poor no help for the gay people it’s all about him him and him. Who needs a governor like that? We saw it during his brief television show that didn’t last long when he went cross country with all his transsexual friends on the bus and they all avoided them because they couldn’t stand them and his beliefs and how he loved Trump. I used to like him but after I saw her how he is as a Republican and he claims he was a Democrat that’s impossible but God forbid he wins. And his everybody knows him claim maybe true but I would say 85% just like him including me ever since he became a woman and we saw his true feelings on the gay people or health care he was against it. Anyway now he’s just a dope and I’m hoping everybody saw that clip on the final episode of the Kardashians where you says he’s bored that was before he started thinking about running for governor I think cuz then he started the YouTube channel probably nobody tuned in. That’s why he lost the documentary show because everyone lost interest after they saw how evil he is and cheap can’t run a country being cheap people pay taxes and they should get more than high salary Congress members that are making $186,000 a year and say no to everything well Mitch McConnell needs to go I don’t understand how it got reelected again I mean he’s ripping everybody off his wife or Secretary of transportation and her family has a shipping company thank God she’s gone too. Now Mitch needs to go cuz he’s what Moscow Mitch. Another Putin, and puppet! I’m starting to think that everyone in Congress that’s Republican is a Putin puppet he’s paying them all off to destroy America and our democracy and you’d have to be blind like Stevie Wonder not to see it with three states are ready their legislature can override the voters if they’re not happy with the outcome and that’s outrageous. The 15th amendment of the Constitution says nobody nobody has the power to tamper with the election and the people’s right to vote. Everyone should read the 15th amendment and storm Texas state capitol, residing the 15th amendment of the United States Constitution. You’re supposed to make it easier and better not miserable and harder to vote. So keep Caitlin at home bored in Malibu and save America by resetting the 15th amendment on every media platform that you know of or any that you’re on!
Mack
Moscow Mitch won in his red state like they do in all red states-they control the ballot boxes.
Doug
My guess is that she knows she hasn’t got a chance in hell of winning this election so she’s spending $$$ on whatever she wants. Anyone who could seriously fund her campaign deserves to lose their cash. In any case, they can easily write it off their taxes.
Chrisk
They’re all mega rich donors like Paul Mitchells spoiled brat. Really it’s pocket change for them.
laurent7465
I am TOTALLY pro-trans. I had a very good friend who transitioned mtf. Sadly, she died about 5yrs ago. She was a lovely human being. Bruce is NOT and NEVER will be a part of the LGBTQ+ community and certainly doesn’t deserve to be and doesn’t deserve to be called by any other name than his dead-name, Bruce! He’s a train wreck of a human and to think, that when I was a teen back in 1976, I thought he was so sexy in those Speedos. God, I could just puke now of the thought. He will never get enough votes from us here in CA to win. The closest he’s gonna get to the Capitol is a walk by on the sidewalk.
babyglock9mm
I am trans. Bruce doesn’t have any idea what true trans people go through. He’s always been a sideshow and always will be!
Chrisk
babyglock9mm
Well, she did say the hardest part of being trans was figuring out what to wear. I’m sure she looks at the governorship as the same.
LumpyPillows
Slippery slope when you can decide to disrespect a trans person because you don’t like them. I would suggest stopping.
Gerard David Jr
Sorry about the typos I tried to correct you but the time ran out. It’s 85% dislike him like me. I can’t stand her! The typo also them is really him traveling with his friends on the bus they couldn’t stand him after they saw how Republican he was so it was a bad bus ride all the way to Chicago where he was going with them. But there’s probably more typos I just can’t think of him right this second but just know him is really her. Thanks for understanding.
Mister Dawson
There r people u meet in your life who u wish u never did. I meet this horrible, vile disgusting person when he was training for the Olympic’s in the 70’s. I was just a kid but I remember him coming to our home.
This is when the Olympic’s were viewed as only allowing Amateur’s to compete but Russia among others had State sponsored athletes while countries like the United Stated relied on corporations to sponsor the “elite” athletes. Bruce was “sponsored” by an insurance company that went to peoples houses to collect the monthly premiums. As Bruce was being “trained” he came with his mentor (there was no intent for Bruce to remain an employee—which is another story).
Bruce was so full of himself and insulting to both myself and my mother giving opinions that had nothing to do with insurance but on how we lived to the point that his boss had to tell him to shut up. Even with this warning he acted like he was above everyone. His behavior hasn’t changed.
He is the rudest nasty man I have EVER met. I wish he would just go away for us to never hear or see again.
cuteguy
Doesn’t she have a net worth of 100 million? Why not fund her own campaign if she believes in her own crap
Mack
Caitlyn is just following Trump’s playbook. Get fools to donate then spend all the money on yourself. Don’t use it for what it was intended.
BoomerMyles
Jenner has no real chance of being governor.
The REAL threat is Larry Elder. If Dems don’t return their mail-in ballots in massive numbers CA will have a repub governor.
winemaker
Why is having a conservative governor so bad? Really all the free spending n BULLSHIT in which taxes keep going up and the place goes further and deeper into the toilet, why the people here haven’t said ENOUGH. If you don’t believe how bad things are a look and smell at any large city should tell you how well newsom’s running the place other than into the ground. Really this clown who’s only out for himself needs to go and the sooner the better. BTW: this isn’t a Republican or democrat thing, this is all about saving the state before it can’t be saved. and sadly in many places it’s too far gone
Creamsicle
Yeah she’s got name recognition, because every time you mention her name, everyone has to ask
“Caitlyn Jenner? What did that dumbass say this time?”
Fahd
If Gavin Newsom really has $40 million for the campaign he better start spending it yesterday. Complacency, especially with the delta variant issues, is not going to be rewarded. California has turned out a perfectly fine democratic governor before and replaced him with the joke candidate (Arnold Schwarzenegger). This time the republicans have a joke list, but one of them (not Jenner) might be the next governor if the Democrats don’t get out the vote.
RyanMBecker
Yes, Jenner has name recognition but in her case, that’s NOT a good thing.
Who is this moron, Steven Cheung? Campaigns usually exploit their spokespeople’s backgrounds to increase minority turnout. I guessing that Cheung won’t increase any Asian-American support for Jenner.
Iona Lexiss
Ego-maniacal publicity stunt.
Hdtex
“SUSHI DINNER”….is that code for artificial vagina?
Terrycloth
Ever hear of a campaign manager or an accountant ? Probably don’t have one .another i can do it myself .. well… apparently not.
Cam
She hired the former Trump campaign head Brad Parscale. The guy who was recently arrested.
PoetDaddy
Have I mentioned lately how THOROUGHLY I despise Miss Kitty-Kat and all her demon step-brood?