I wouldn't want to spend all of my money on an election. I wouldn't turn down individual, small donations. I think it's smart of Trump to take individual donations still. The only problem people have with politicians receiving money is it comes from the wealthy and has strings attached. Individual donations have no strings attached, so it's smart of him to take advantage of what people are willing to give to help him get elected. Even if Bernie Sanders had plenty of money to fund his campaign (which I'm not sure many politicians actually don't), I still wouldn't expect them to. I never understood donating money to politicians for commercials and ads, though. Of all the places you could give your $20 to, they choose a politician?!