“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.
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.
“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.
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.