Big Haul.

By Zamboni

At one point yesterday, CNN was reporting that the Biden campaign was going to report it had raised $310 million in the month of August. Now, that sounds impressive, since the previous record for monthly fundraising was Benedict Donald's $165 million in July. But we were a little deflated, because we'd seen reports that it was going to be closer to $350 million.

Well, team, the numbers are in: 365 MILLION DOLLARS. Just for August. Mostly in small-dollar donations. Somebody fetch the smelling salts, please, because we've fainted.

Biden said today that a lot of the money will go toward "counter[ing] the lies that are being told by Trump's campaign and ‘Swift Boaters’ out there." And he's right. But it will also buy a lot of TV in many swing states. We sure hope, too, that Biden-Harris will look at the Senate map and make investments in places like Georgia, Kansas, Iowa, Montana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas. Maybe Joe and Kamala can pull a few Democratic Senatorial candidates across the finish line (and vice versa) in those states.

In the meantime, $365 million in grassroots money is a huge rebuke to the Kochs, Adelsons and Schwarzmans of the world — moneybags who care more about tax cuts and judges than a livable planet, human rights, the rule of law, etc., etc. We cats PURR.