How many fund raisers did George W. Bush attend?

Answer 1

To be fair, all presidents attend fund-raisers, and due to the increasingly competitive nature of modern politics, compounded by the 24/7 cable news channels and more recently, by the Supreme Court's controversial "Citizens United" decision (which allowed unlimited donations by corporations to candidates of their choice), presidents need to constantly be fund-raising. Thus, whether you are asking about President Bush or any other president, it is difficult to accurately give you a dollar figure: President Bush may have sometimes combined fund-raising with official presidential business, a common practice these days.

But just to give you some sense of things, during his re-election campaign in 2004, President Bush attended 86 fund-raisers. He also created a group called the "Bush Pioneers," wealthy donors who gave large amounts to his campaign, enabling him to do other things while his donors raised money on his behalf. And it should be noted that President Bush also spent considerable time fund-raising for other Republican candidates (and by implication, for the Republican party), so the figure of 86 is misleading.