Posted on 03/21/2019 8:00:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
While President Trump is facing murmurs of a primary challenge – as well as a massive field of Democratic candidates jockeying to take him on – the incumbent president enters the 2020 melee with an undeniable advantage: a war chest that would be the envy of any modern president.
Unlike most incumbents, Trump started his re-election bid on day one of his presidency. He filed papers with the Federal Election Commission within hours of being inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2017. Many saw it as a comical – albeit in character – step for the audacious Trump. Yet, by doing so he was able to raise huge sums of money four years before the election.
According to recent FEC data, the Trump campaign has raised over $67 million from 2017 to 2018, with nearly $20 million on hand. Combined with the hauls from two major joint fundraising groups – Trump Victory and the Trump Make America Great Again Committee – the president has raised over $130 million as of the end of 2018, with over $35 million on hand.
By contrast, former President Barack Obama had raised only $4 million in the first two years of his presidency and didn’t file for re-election until April 2011. Former President George W. Bush had raised $3 million by the end of his second year in office and filed for re-election in May 2003.
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Spot on!
“the president has raised over $130 million as of the end of 2018, with over $35 million on hand.” If he has raised “$130 million,” why does he have “over $35 million on hand?” This makes no sense, but that is usual for the “news” media.
Trump you magnificent bastud!
Holy smokes, that’s a lotta MAGA moolah !
GO TRUMP !!!!
Boom! :-)
Maybe money pledged,but not actually donated—yet.
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The 130m includes money raised by pacs. The ones that run all those Support Presdent Trump ads on Fox and elsewhere. Gotta spend money to raise money.
Still makes no sense.
> Unlike most incumbents, ...
pull the other one
Yeah, they tell you other presidents didn’t raise early money and then they tell you how much they raised. The fact that Trump is much better at it is hardly surprising.
“the president has raised over $130 million as of the end of 2018, with over $35 million on hand.” If he has raised “$130 million,” why does he have “over $35 million on hand?” This makes no sense, but that is usual for the “news” media.
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I read this as meaning that some of the $130 million has been spent/allocated to building the 2020 Campaign “infrastructure” and an additional amount spent to raise additional funds. ALL campaign fundraising is done with these costs. I want to see a huge amount of campaign cash ON HAND to ease my worries. We’re going to need everything we can get to compete with the Democrats’ “ballot harvesting” and other vote fraud.
Trump’s GOTV operation is already well organized, as are the social media operations. Mainframes and software cost a lot of money. He also has access to the RNC mailing, email, and phone number lists.It’s not to early to start reaching out to the 50+ million evangelicals who didn’t vote in 2016.
All this stuff costs money.Better to be ahead of the Democrats rather than trying to play catch up.
I remember reading about that and was thrilled he did it that soon!
Former Rep. (Baby poop Bob)Beto O’Rourke, former Gov. John Hickenlooper, Gov. Jay Inslee, Sen. (Crazy) Bernie Sanders, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Sen. (Liawatha) Elizabeth Warren, Sen. (Spartacus) Cory Booker, Sen. (HeelsUp) Kamala Harris, ex-San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, former Rep. John Delaney, author Marianne Williamson, former tech executive Andrew Yang Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
I can't keep track of them all.
And creepy Uncle Joe and Killary are waiting in the wings?
Didn’t mean to link to you, Notthereyet, sorry.
LOL It really does seem like they’ve used that gag as the basis for their 2020 Campaign!
Hey, if Uncle Biden were to run, the Republicans just need to have billboards all over the country of him feeling up all those little girls and the occasional boy.
That man really is vile.
The fact that the parents would let him manhandle their child/children causes me to think they themselves are perverse.
Which way to the DNC convention?
I’d imagine that some wealthy donors that participate in the “Donate and we have a 3X match..” category have pledged the money to be actually donated when the time comes....keep their money working for them until it has to be spent.
Between Soros, and his rich liberal friends, they will write a check and the rat candidate will be all caught up.
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