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Opinion: The Democrats' response to RBG's death should terrify Trump [cnn.com]:

The Democrats' response to RBG's death should terrify Trump

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Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio's daily program "The Dean Obeidallah Show" and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him @DeanObeidallah. [twitter.com] The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion articles [cnn.com] on CNN.

Here are two facts every discussion on this topic must include -- as I've heard firsthand from listeners who call my nightly SiriusXM radio show. One, how much Trump is utterly despised by Democrats. Two, how much that same base loves Ginsburg, a global icon affectionately referred to as RBG [nytimes.com].

The Democratic response so far should terrify Trump and GOP Senate candidates up for election this year. Democrats have already begun channeling their pain at losing RBG into action, pouring a record-breaking number of donations [nytimes.com] to Democratic candidates and causes via the online fundraising platform ActBlue. [actblue.com] The New York Times reported that from about 9 p.m. ET Friday -- about 90 minutes after RBG's death was announced -- ActBlue reported receiving $6.2 million in donations, the most ever in just one hour in the platform's 16-year history. That record was broken the following hour when $6.3 million was donated, [nytimes.com] more than $100,000 per minute.

Saturday, after Trump announced he would be nominating a candidate for RBG's seat this week, ActBlue raised another $70.6 million [axios.com] dollars from 1.2 million contributors. All told in the 28 hours after RBG's death, ActBlue reported receiving $100 million [twitter.com] in donations for Democrats. (I can't find any reports of an upsurge in GOP fundraising since Friday.) For perspective, [cnn.com] Trump and the Republican National Committee raised $210 million in the full month of August. Biden and the Democratic National Committee raised $364.5 million in the same period.

These donations might come as a surprise to Republican leaders since it's typically their base that is more motivated by the issue of filling seats on the nation's highest court. A July 2016 Pew poll [pewresearch.org] found 70% of Trump supporters said Supreme Court appointments were "very important" to them compared to 62% of Hillary Clinton supporters.

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