Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

I'm Tamer Keat, I cover the White House.

I'm Kelsey Snell, I cover Congress.

And Kelsey today we are doing something a little bit different on the podcast.

For the past few weeks you have been talking to people behind the scenes, the people who

make campaigns happen.

Fundraisers, ad makers, pollsters.

To figure out how campaigns work, what it looks like under the hood.

But I thought it might be nice to start with fundraising, which has changed a lot over

the past decade.

Yeah, absolutely.

I talked to Republicans and Democrats who work in fundraising just to kind of get a sense

of where those big dollars that have been pouring into campaigns are coming from.

And how do you go about getting the small dollar donations that have started to become

really popular in campaigns?

Yeah, they have supercharged campaigns in a way.

Well, let's start with the big dollars, the traditional donations, those big checks.

Who did you talk to about that?

Well, here's a name you probably remember, Anthony Scaremucci.

Never forget, never forget.

He was the White House Communications Director for approximately 11 days.

Many things in time are now measured in Scaremucci's.

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