Was 138 Million a signifier?
Doing a quick search yielded some results attaching that figure to the Democrats and perhaps more.
5 Things We've Learned About 2016 Presidential Fundraising
"4. It's going to be one huge-spending campaign.
Looking just at the major candidates (which we're defining here as the people who in the last quarter raised $100,000 or more, not counting self-funding), the total amount of spending on this election is already staggering: At this point in the 2012 cycle, these major candidates had taken in around $83 million. This time, it's around $138 million.
Of course, a part of this spike is that there are far more major candidates this time around — for example, 12 GOP candidates have raised more than $100,000 right now, compared with eight in the 2012 cycle. And on the Democrat side, there are three of these candidates this time (Lincoln Chafee doesn't make this cutoff, as he's largely self-funded right now). Last time on the Democrat side, of course, there was simply Obama.
Average it out, and the amount per candidate is around $9 million, roughly where it was last time. However, while candidates' slices of the fundraising pie may not have grown a lot on average, the total pie this time looks to be far bigger."
https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/07/16/423358905/5-things-weve-learned-about-2016-presidential-fundraising
Could be nothing but, seems rather relevant.
The more interesting connection is the 138 pages brought to us via Judicial Watch regarding Clinton Emails.
Judicial Watch Uncovers New Batch of Hillary Clinton Emails
AUGUST 09, 2016
"Recently, Judicial Watch released other State Department emails (one batch of 103 pages, the second of 138 pages), with newly discovered Clinton emails also going back as far as January 2009."
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-uncovers-new-batch-hillary-clinton-emails/
Here are links to the batches 103 and 138 pages, respectively.
-https://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-5th-production-huma-emails-00684-3/
-https://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-6th-production-huma-emails-00684/
and a supplemental article via Judicial Watch:
New Abedin Emails Reveal Hillary Clinton State Department Gave Special Access to Top Clinton Foundation Donors
AUGUST 22, 2016
"This is the ninth set of records produced for Judicial Watch by the State Department from the non-state.gov email accounts of Huma Abedin.
The documents were produced under a court order in a May 5, 2015, Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit against the State Department (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00684)) requiring the agency to produce “all emails of official State Department business received or sent by former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin from January 1, 2009 through February 1, 2013, using a ‘non-state’.gov email address.”
“No wonder Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin hid emails from the American people, the courts and Congress,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “They show the Clinton Foundation, Clinton donors, and operatives worked with Hillary Clinton in potential violation of the law.”"
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-uncovers-new-batch-hillary-clinton-emails/
These also seem extremely relevant:
"Plaintiff Committee to Defend the President (“CDP”) filed this lawsuit based on Defendant
Federal Election Commission’s (“FEC”) unexplained delay—now exceeding well over half a
year—in making even an initial determination of whether the administrative complaint CDP filed
with the FEC provides “reason to believe” federal campaign finance law had been violated. 52
U.S.C. § 30109(a)(2). Because CDP has standing to challenge the FEC’s refusal to timely
adjudicate its administrative complaint, see 52 U.S.C. § 30109(a)(8)(A), this Court should deny
the FEC’s Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Subject Matter Jurisdiction."
[https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/cdp_cdp_opp_mtd.pdf]
1.This lawsuit seeks to compel the Federal Election Commission (“FEC”) to take action on
an administrative complaint the Committee to Defend the President (“CDP”) filed with the
FEC over a year ago—even excluding the period during which the federal government was
shut down—disclosing the existence of an unprecedented nationwide scheme to violate
federal campaign finance law in which $84 million was effectively laundered over more
than a year by the Hillary Victory Fund (“HVF”) through dozens of state political party
committees to the Democratic National Committee (“DNC”) and, ultimately, to Hillary for
America (“HFA”).
2…
3…
[https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/cdp_cdp_supp_complaint.pdf]
Lastly, 138 Million is roughly the voting populace in the 2016 election.
Remember:
The Sun Will Always Rise.
Happy Hunting.