Trump raises $46 million in Q4 for reelection, outpacing Democratic rivals

Donald Trump in 2019 brought in $143 million for his re-election efforts, as sprawling Democratic field meanwhile lost another candidate.

Donald Trump's re-election team on Thursday revealed that he sits atop a staggering campaign war chest, underlining the scale of the challenge facing the US president's Democratic rivals at the start of an election year.

The sprawling Democratic field meanwhile lost another candidate when Julian Castro, the only Hispanic in the 2020 field, announced he was ending his bid.

That leaves 14 candidates still in the running to take on Trump—and competing for much-needed donations that keep a campaign's all-important ground game and advertising operations going.

In the fourth quarter of 2019, even as Trump was mired in a political scandal that resulted