It's come to this

Joe Biden’s transition team has expanded its fundraising goal far beyond what Hillary Clinton raised in 2016, anticipating that, should they prevail in November, the Trump administration could actively work against their efforts and that the coronavirus pandemic will make a presidential changeover more difficult than ever.

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“Trump is going to make this extremely difficult, so we need to be prepared.”

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“The reason is fairly obvious: The things that we need to do to unravel the mess that Trump has created is going to take a substantial amount of time and money,” said one Democratic donor, who is not directly involved in the transition effort. “This is a transition like no other.”

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The Biden transition team is aiming to raise at least $7 million by Election Day and build a staff of at least 350 people, according to a person familiar with the transition’s planning, while another person said the total fundraising goal is $7 million to $10 million.

The budget far exceeds the $2.1 million that Clinton raised for her transition planning by Election Day 2016, or the $6.5 million Trump’s transition raised before he assumed the presidency.

  Politico

I'd like to see an accounting of how the Trump team spent that money.

Mitt Romney in 2012 raised $8.9 million for what is considered the most robust prior effort to plan a transition hand-off between two different parties.

Damn.

[O]ne former Obama administration official said they were worried that the Biden effort wasn’t robust enough. “Given the enormity of the crises facing the country right now and the certainty that Trump will not go quietly, it’s concerning to me that their ambition of scale is lower than Romney’s,” the official said.

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Biden’s campaign is far from facing a cash crunch as it heads into the fall. Last month, it smashed fundraising records by bringing in a record $365 million along with the Democratic National Committee and affiliated groups, outraising Trump by $154 million.

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The transition fund isn’t the only post-election vehicle that could help with a potentially rocky transfer of power. High-dollar donors are also fielding appeals to give to legal and recount funds through the DNC. One Democratic strategist said that those who are giving to the transition fund “are individuals who are interested in agency assignments and ambassadorships.”

But of course.