When you're running campaigns, there's earned media, there's free media, and there's news cycles that just play to some people's advantage. Donald Trump just sucked the free media out of every room. And there was no precedent for it. So In 2016, my campaign raised $92 million. It was the most money any Republican had ever raised in the history of presidential primaries. It was more than George W. Bush or John McCain or Mitt Romney. And that came from 1.6 million contributions all over the country. $92 million is a crap ton of money. (18:57–19:08)
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Asserts that Ted Cruz's 2016 campaign raised a record $92 million for a Republican primary.
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