Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee have raised more than $300 million this year for his re-election and according to Politico, that’s more than any other sitting president in history at this stage of a re-election campaign.
Trump has nearly twice as much cash on hand — $158 million, between his campaign account and the RNC — as Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee had at this time in his successful re-election run.
The article notes that Trump’s campaign has made a concerted effort to find new small-donor dollars and the effort seems to be paying off with hundreds of thousands of new donors gathered between the months of July and September.
'The resources he has will be put to work anywhere and everywhere that he feels like he can scare up electoral votes, and Democrats will never catch up. It’s just too much money,' said Chris Lippincott, a Texas-based Democratic strategist who ran a super PAC opposing Sen. Ted Cruz last year.