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Jaw-Dropping Report: Trump On Pace To Rake in 4 Times What He Raised in 2016

 By G.S. Hair  July 8, 2019 at 1:20pm
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President Donald Trump has more to be happy about than just a booming economy and Joe Biden repeatedly shooting himself in the foot.

He is also likely smiling over the massive amount of money he and the GOP have taken in.

Trump and his fundraising committees raised $54 million during the second quarter, according to his campaign.

In addition to that sum, the Republican National Committee raised $51 million, as CNBC reports.

By comparison, former President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign reported bringing in $46 million in the second quarter of 2011.

Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner believes that the current trend points to an unprecedented fundraising total. “Republican donor enthusiasm is reaching new levels more than a year before the presidential election,” Bedard writes, “sparking wild predictions that President Trump and the Republican National Committee’s joint fundraising committee will raise more than Trump and Hillary Clinton collected in the 2016 election.”

“GOP fundraisers said the president could rake in $2 billion to $2.5 billion, a record amount that is double what Clinton and former President Barack Obama took in for their most recent campaigns.”

That $2.5 billion estimate would be four times Trump’s 2016 total.

“President Trump raised a large chunk of that — $24.8 million — in the 24 hours after his 2020 re-election campaign launch last month,” Fox News reports.

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And the numbers are not just coming in over traditional channels.

Digital fundraising is growing at a spectacular rate.

According to Trump’s Digital Director, Gary Coby, the second quarter of 2019 resulted in $35 million in online donations. That is a 26 percent increase over the previous quarter. The digital totals for 2019 are outpacing 2018 by 150 percent.

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Donors told Bedard that “while swarms of small-dollar donations are rolling in, big donors are also eager to contribute, citing Trump’s successes in packing courts with conservative judges, cutting taxes, eliminating costly regulations, and boosting the economy.”

“Trump benefits from being the only major Republican running so far, aside from a long-shot primary challenge mounted by former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld,” Fox News explains. “Democrats, by contrast, are running as part of a historically large field and must divvy up the donor base.”

There is much time between now and the 2020 election, but Trump’s fundraising pace will make him a formidable opponent for whichever Democrat emerges from the pack.

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G.S. Hair
Former Executive Editor, The Western Journal
G.S. Hair is the former executive editor of The Western Journal.
G.S. Hair is the former executive editor of The Western Journal and vice president of digital content of Liftable Media.

After graduating law school from the Cecil C. Humphries School of Law, Mr. Hair spent a decade as an attorney practicing at the trial and appellate level in Arkansas and Tennessee. He represented clients in civil litigation, contractual disputes, criminal defense and domestic matters. He spent a significant amount of time representing indigent clients who could not afford private counsel in civil or criminal matters. A desire for justice and fairness was a driving force in Mr. Hair's philosophy of representation. Inspired by Christ’s role as an advocate on our behalf before God, he often represented clients who had no one else to fight on their behalf.

Mr. Hair has been a consultant for Republican political candidates and has crafted grassroots campaign strategies to help mobilize voters in staunchly Democrat regions of the Eastern United States.

In early 2015, he began writing for Conservative Tribune. After the site was acquired by Liftable Media, he shut down his law practice, moved to Arizona and transitioned into the position of site director. He then transitioned to vice president of content. In 2018, after Liftable Media folded all its brands into The Western Journal, he was named executive editor. His mission is to advance conservative principles and be a positive and truthful voice in the media.

He is married and has four children. He resides in Phoenix, Arizona.
Birthplace
South Carolina
Education
Homeschooled (and proud of it); B.A. Mississippi College; J.D. University Of Memphis
Location
Phoenix, Arizona
Languages Spoken
English
Topics of Expertise
Culture, Faith, Politics




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