Trump Pulls In $46 Million In Fourth Fundraising Quarter

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President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign raised $46 million in the fourth fundraising quarter, giving him $102.7 million in cash on hand heading into 2020, according to campaign officials.

Trump campaign officials also told Reuters that the President’s current cash on hand tops where President Barack Obama was at this point in his presidency, when he had $81.8 million to spend at the end of 2011.

According to the Daily Beast, Trump’s number surpasses each Democrat’s fourth quarter haul, though Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) comes closest with $34.5 million.

That being said, Trump’s current financial dominance is hardly surprising. Unlike the Democrats, he is the Republicans’ sole serious candidate — the Democrats are currently splitting the available donor pool multiple ways. Trump also broke with common practice in keeping his campaign machinery going as he filed for reelection right after he won in 2016, allowing him to keep steadily fundraising throughout his presidency.

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  1. Not to worry; Trump will grift away 90% of his haul, so Dems still won’t need to prostrate themselves before billionaires and the corporate elite to defeat him…

  2. Avatar for jm_tpm jm_tpm says:

    The Dem nominee will need to be decided quickly, so that he/she (Probably ‘he’…) will have the time to start amassing a war chest and set up a war room to combat the highly sophisticated propaganda shop the Trump campaign is creating. It is amazing for someone with such consistently poor polling, but Mr. Trump is going to be really hard to beat.

  3. Well big donor’s/foreign countries know they can get favors by donating. And then there is all the brainwashed fox news watchers who buy his merch to “own” the libs.

  4. Which Republican admitted that there is foreign money in our political campaigns? He said it recently, but with each new rising of the sun there always seems to be a new story of corruption and incompetence from the Republicans and this President. It’s hard to keep up, and keep the details in mind.

  5. Well looks like a lot of rooms at various drumps properties are going to be rented out for “campaign staff”.

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