2024? i mean, i think it s a question for the fact that donald trump is essentially radioactive, and republicans are saying democrats and democratic strategists are bankers on television. i think it s a question that he is going to have to answer and we will see play out. i like to say it s still early, alex, and it s a long way to a republican primary and a long way before the first debate and a very long way before the general election in 2024. for democrats in georgia and the people on the ground, they are making the calculations about what is the best way to use the outside resources to turn people out to vote. this is a turnout game as vaughn was talking about. there has been more than $56 million spent. democrats have out spent republicans, and 36.1 million of those dollars are democratic dollars because that seat matters. the influx of help from the obamas is positioned to turn
political pros call this early fund-raising part of it the first primary. tonight we have a winner. george w. bush stunned everybody by disclosing he has raised $36.1 million. that smashes all previous standing records. that was 16 years ago. that is a dramatic illustration of the role in the power. like it or not that money plays in choosing who the next president will be. that was the summer of 1999 and it was that news that revelation that you just heard there that really catapulted jonch w. bush on his way to the white house. it was the end of the second quarter, the second set of three months basically halfway through the year in 1999. these were the kinds of numbers we were talking about. george w. bush raising $37 million. his next closest rival steve forbes with his own money. this was shock when it happened. it caused a lot of republicans, people in media, people in politics in general to look at
well, with memorial day weekend comes memorial day travel. according to triple a, 36.1 million americans expected to travel over this long weekend. that s 600,000 more people than the last year, 31.8 million people will travel by car and 2.6 million by air. gabe gutierrez is live at hartsfield jackson international airport in atlanta. gabe, you re counting all of them, aren t you? reporter: hi, richard. things have been going pretty smoothly here. here in atlanta they seem to know how to handle this rush. this airport handles 250,000 travelers on any given day. last year on memorial day weekend they saw about 1.6 million. by the end of today they expect that. no major delays today or anywhere else around the company. if we look at the misery map, we