“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.