Donald Trump has raised $106 million for his 2020 re-election war chest, with more than two years still to go until the vote.
New figures filed with the Federal Election Commission showed the US president hauled in more than $18 million during the third quarter of 2018.
At least the last four presidents had not begun actively campaigning for re-election two years into their first terms.
But Mr Trump filed his candidacy for 2020 the day after he became president, and he has been fundraising ever since.
The latest filings showed that 56 per cent of the money raised in the last three months came from small donations of less than $200.
That included money paid by supporters purchasing Make America Great Again hats and other campaign merchandise.
Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law and a senior campaign adviser, said: "Grassroots America has responded to the booming Trump economy with their generous support of our campaign."
AFP
The Trump campaign currently has about $47 million in the bank, having spent large amounts on events including rallies.
It spent $12 million over the last three months, which represented a surge ahead of the midterm elections in November.
According to the FEC filings money comes in through a campaign committee, and two other committees called Trump Victory and Trump Make America Great Again.
A portion of that money is passed on to the Republican National Committee to benefit the party’s other candidates for Congress.
Money spent by the campaign included $1.6 million on a newly formed advertising company called American Made Media Consultants.
It also spent more than $1 million on lawyers, including for fees related to representing campaign officials in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.
The campaign spent $42,588 on legal representation for Mr Trump, and his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, in matters related to the pornstar Stormy Daniels.
It also paid $604,000 to a company called Ace Specialties, which manufactures Make America Great Again hats.
FEC filings for the third quarter showed Democrats leading Republicans overall in the money race ahead of the midterm elections.
More than 60 Democrat candidates for the House of Representatives each raised more than $1 million.
The biggest political fundraiser for the quarter, by far, was Beto O’Rourke, the Democrat taking on Republican Ted Cruz for a US Senate seat in Texas. He raised $38 million, more than three times as much as Mr Cruz.
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