Donald Trump’s list of accomplishments as a popular vote losing president isn’t very long, but he can claim a hefty dose of the credit for this one: House Democrats have already raised more money online in 2017 than they did in all of 2015.
The DCCC raised $20 million in online contributions since the start of the year from contributions averaging just $18, according to the group, beating the $19.7 million the committee raised during 2015, the last off-year ahead of an election year.
Sure, there’s an asterisk next to Trump’s claim on this one, but that’s true of many of his “accomplishments” over the past four months.
Democrats continue to outpace Republicans at online fundraising by just a little bit:
The National Republican Congressional Committee has been working to improve that, and touted breaking their own 2015 record in the first months of 2017 — but the haul was only $1.7 million, according to the National Journal.
Republicans don’t have as much motivation to increase their small dollar contributions, though, since they have the Koch brothers and other billionaires ready to buy elections for them.
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