Trump is a political planet unto himself. Normal rules of gravity don't apply. He does what he wants, when he wants and how he wants. Including raise money. Lots and lots of money.On Monday night, President Donald Trump's 2020 re-election campaign announced that it had raised in excess of $18 million over the past three months, a haul that means the incumbent has already raised $106 million for a race that is more than two years away.
That's
a stunning -- and totally unprecedented -- amount of money for a
sitting president to have collected less than two years into his first
term.
Look, I get it.
Money has become so plentiful in American politics -- every two years
cash floods the system through a variety of super PACs and other
newfangled entities aimed at skirting campaign finance law -- that
there's a tendency, even among political junkies, to get a little
glassy-eyed when it comes to talk of unprecedented amounts of money
being harvested earlier and earlier in the election cycle.
But, Trump's haul IS a
big deal -- even amid that reality. Here's proof -- in the form of a
comparison between Trump's fundraising at this point to his two
predecessors in the job:
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