Bush Raises Campaign Funds in D.C., N.C.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush is dusting off his fund-raiser-in-chief hat and resuming the task of collecting campaign cash for himself and other Republican candidates. He was raising money Friday in Washington and North Carolina and, while down south, was holding an event designed to boost his standing among women voters...
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The president enlisted former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton to lead a nationwide charity drive.
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President Bush burned through more than half of his &#36;75 million government grant to cover his general-election campaign costs in September, leaving him with just under &#36;37 million left for the final month before the Nov. 2 election.
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The aggressive fund raising that produced record spending in the 2004 presidential race won't stop with the election. President Bush's finance team will now look to raise millions from businesses and other big donors to finance inauguration festivities.
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The Republican Party is following up record fund raising for President Bush's re-election effort by asking donors to finance its efforts to get Bush's message "past the liberal media filter" to the public.
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President Bush stops to shake hands with supporters at the North Iowa Fairgrounds-All Season Building during a campaign rally Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2004 in Mason City, Iowa.
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President Bush's campaign spent &#36;45.8 million in July, the bulk of it on advertising, but he still had about &#36;32.5 million left to spend before he accepts his party's nomination next month, according to a filing released on Friday.
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CRAWFORD, Texas  - President Bush, under pressure  over the pace and scale of American aid to Asian tsunami  victims, abruptly raised the U.S. contribution to $350 million  on Friday, 10 times the amount pledged just two days ago.
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President Bush, hoping to build on  recent momentum in the White House race, delivers the biggest  speech of his campaign on Thursday in the city where the Sept.  11, 2001, attacks transformed his presidency.
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Two years before Benazir Bhutto was assassinated while leading her Pakistan People's Party in its campaign against the rule of President Pervez Musharraf, the Bush administration devoted this much new aid money to strengthen political parties in Pakistan: $0.
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The Bush campaign is making a push for the allegiance of African-American clergy, while the Democrats are motivating them to get their parishioners to the polls.
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President Bush says polls don't matter to him, but his slumping popularity appears to be influencing fellow Republicans in a way that hurts &#151; money. Bush's yearly fundraising dinner for Republican congressional candidates on Wednesday generated $15.4 million &#151; no small amount, but almost half as much as the $27 million the event brought in last year. Bush raised $23 million at the same dinners in 2005 and 2004.
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President Bush has recruited his re-election campaign's fund-raising chief and two of his other top political money men to collect millions of dollars for January inaugural festivities.
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The announcement of the record increase came a day after President Bush heralded his efforts to help the elderly with medical expenses.
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RALEIGH, N.C.  - President Bush, determined to  build support for overhauling Social Security, sought on  Thursday to assure members of Congress that they would not be  hurt politically for supporting his proposal.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush and John Kerry have accepted $75 million each in government financing for their campaigns for the White House but tens of millions more will be spent by the parties and partisan interest groups to influence the race.
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POPLAR BLUFF, Mo.  - President Bush asked Congress  on Monday to immediately approve $2 billion for  hurricane-battered Florida and the White House announced he  would visit the election battleground state on Wednesday.