President Trump shatters small-donor records, gets head start on 2020 race

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President Trump shatters small-donor records, gets head start on 2020 race

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump smashed records for small-donor fundraising last year, surpassing President Obama’s performance and raising as much from small contributors as Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders combined, a new tally shows.

Trump and the joint fundraising committee he established with the Republican National Committee (RNC) collected 69% of its individual donations from people who gave $200 or less, according to the analysis by the non-partisan Campaign Finance Institute.

That puts Trump ahead of the 44% that Sanders and the 22% that Clinton each collected in individual contributions from small donors. It also exceeds the Obama’s haul from small contributors in 2012, who accounted for 28% of his individual donations in that election cycle..

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