Republicans estimate President Trump needs $1 billion to win in 2020 — and that he needs some unlikely donors to make that happen.
With several Democrats' fundraising totals already leaping into the tens of millions, the GOP knows it needs its wealthy party members who fought Trump in 2016 to change allegiances this time around. And to make that happen, Vice President Mike Pence — the less abrasive of America's executive duo — is taking to the golf course, Politico reports.
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