The Trump campaign and RNC raised more cash this quarter than any 2020 candidate
President Trump has a fundraising feat of his own to share.
Together with the Republican National Committee, the Trump campaign raised a whopping $125 million in the third fundraising quarter of 2019, Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale announced Tuesday. That's significantly more than Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) recordbreaking haul, and could even beat the combined total raised by all the 2020 Democrats in the past three months.
Monday marked the Federal Election Commission deadline for third-quarter fundraising for 2020 presidential candidates, and most of them started to report those totals Tuesday morning. That's when Sanders revealed his $25.3 million gain, up from $18 million in the second quarter and the largest single-quarter haul of any Democrat this cycle. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) announced he'd pulled in $6 million, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said she'd gotten $11.6 million, and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg reported $19.1 million.
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Yet even combined, those dollars don't come near the Trump total. It's not clear just yet how much of that money came from general RNC donations and how much went right to the Trump campaign, but it does leave Trump with a massive $156 million war chest of cash on hand, Parscale tweeted.
Still, there's no telling the 2020 Democrats' combined third-quarter fundraising total just yet, seeing as the top two contenders, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), have yet to reveal their Q3 hauls.
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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.
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