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Bush Raising $27 Million, Outpacing All Democrats
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
ASHINGTON, June 26 ? President Bush's re-election campaign expects to have raised $27 million to $30 million by the end of the month, most of it from a two-week burst of appearances that will conclude with receptions for the president in California on Friday and in Florida on Monday, a spokeswoman for the campaign said tonight.
The figure is sure to dwarf that reported by any of the nine Democratic presidential candidates when they release numbers on their fund-raising activities for the quarter ending June 30. In the first quarter, before Mr. Bush had his campaign up and running, none of the Democrats raised more than $7.4 million, and the entire Democratic field combined raised just over $28 million.
The decision by the Bush campaign to make public an estimate of its fund-raising total for the quarter illustrated the tactical importance of the money race in the early stages of the race for the White House.
Republican strategists said Mr. Bush had set out to raise a lot of money quickly, both to take advantage of his current postwar popularity and to try to dispirit his potential Democratic rivals and, perhaps more importantly, their financial backers. To the degree that Mr. Bush's fund-raising advantage adds to any perception that he will be very difficult to beat, the strategists said, it could lead Democratic donors to hesitate to contribute or to be reluctant to make the maximum individual donation of $2,000.
Determined to show that their campaigns are viable, many of the Democratic candidates have curtailed their travels in recent weeks to concentrate on calling potential donors in hopes of posting a strong showing when they release their second-quarter fund-raising figures.
The Bush campaign's estimate is at the high end of the $20 million to $30 million range that Republicans had set out when Mr. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Laura Bush hit the fund-raising trail earlier this month.
It includes not only what came from the $2,000-a-ticket events at which they appeared, but also the proceeds from a mailing that went out to about one million donors and contributions that flowed in to the campaign's Web site.
The estimate includes donations expected from Mr. Bush's appearances on Friday in San Francisco and Los Angeles and from his appearances on Monday in Tampa, Fla., and Miami. It also includes the expected proceeds from Mr. Cheney's two scheduled events on Monday, in Akron, Ohio, and Grand Rapids, Mich.
Bush Raising $27 Million, Outpacing All Democrats
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
ASHINGTON, June 26 ? President Bush's re-election campaign expects to have raised $27 million to $30 million by the end of the month, most of it from a two-week burst of appearances that will conclude with receptions for the president in California on Friday and in Florida on Monday, a spokeswoman for the campaign said tonight.
The figure is sure to dwarf that reported by any of the nine Democratic presidential candidates when they release numbers on their fund-raising activities for the quarter ending June 30. In the first quarter, before Mr. Bush had his campaign up and running, none of the Democrats raised more than $7.4 million, and the entire Democratic field combined raised just over $28 million.
The decision by the Bush campaign to make public an estimate of its fund-raising total for the quarter illustrated the tactical importance of the money race in the early stages of the race for the White House.
Republican strategists said Mr. Bush had set out to raise a lot of money quickly, both to take advantage of his current postwar popularity and to try to dispirit his potential Democratic rivals and, perhaps more importantly, their financial backers. To the degree that Mr. Bush's fund-raising advantage adds to any perception that he will be very difficult to beat, the strategists said, it could lead Democratic donors to hesitate to contribute or to be reluctant to make the maximum individual donation of $2,000.
Determined to show that their campaigns are viable, many of the Democratic candidates have curtailed their travels in recent weeks to concentrate on calling potential donors in hopes of posting a strong showing when they release their second-quarter fund-raising figures.
The Bush campaign's estimate is at the high end of the $20 million to $30 million range that Republicans had set out when Mr. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Laura Bush hit the fund-raising trail earlier this month.
It includes not only what came from the $2,000-a-ticket events at which they appeared, but also the proceeds from a mailing that went out to about one million donors and contributions that flowed in to the campaign's Web site.
The estimate includes donations expected from Mr. Bush's appearances on Friday in San Francisco and Los Angeles and from his appearances on Monday in Tampa, Fla., and Miami. It also includes the expected proceeds from Mr. Cheney's two scheduled events on Monday, in Akron, Ohio, and Grand Rapids, Mich.
