For all his talk about self-funding his own campaign, billionaire Donald Trump has raised an unprecedented amount of small-dollar donations for a Republican presidential candidate, dwarfing the success his G.O.P. predecessors Mitt Romney and John McCain had with soliciting contributions of less than $200, and prompting comparisons to the king of the small-dollar donation, Barack Obama himself.

Less than three months have passed since the Trump campaign launched its e-mail fund-raising campaign at the end of June, but despite the late start, Trump is rapidly narrowing in on $100 million in small-dollar donations, if he has not already passed the threshold, Politico reports, citing Federal Election Committee filings, Trump campaign statements, and people close to the candidate’s fund-raising operation. Comparatively, McCain and Romney raised less than $64 million from small donors during the entirety of their 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns, respectively. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” a Republican operative who has worked with the campaign told Politico. “He’s the Republican Obama in terms of online fund-raising,” he added.

Comparisons notwithstanding, the Trump campaign has a long way to go before it matches the Democrats’ fund-raising mastery. The Republican standard-bearer still trails his rival__Hillary Clinton__ in small-dollar donations. The Democratic nominee raised almost $156 million in donations of less than $200 through the end of July, Politico reports, and her total pales in comparison to those of Bernie Sanders and Obama. During the Democratic primary, the Vermont senator brought in nearly $202 million in small contributions and Obama raised a staggering $483.6 million in such donations during his 2012 campaign.

But for the Republican National Committee, Trump’s small-dollar fund-raising haul is a windfall. The $100 million in small-dollar donations is a record-setting total for a G.O.P. nominee and was raised via a joint fund-raising committee with the R.N.C., which also pockets a portion of the money, Politico reports. “A lot of [donors] probably don’t realize that 20 percent of the money goes to the R.N.C. otherwise they probably wouldn’t give,” a political operative who has worked with both the Trump campaign and the committee told Politico. “People are giving money to the joint fundraising committee because Donald Trump’s name is on it.”

Whether the success this election cycle in soliciting small contributions will translate to other G.O.P. candidates in the future or if it is merely a result of the Trump’s anti-establishment campaign remains to be seen. “I don’t know how much these Trump donors—if he doesn’t win—want to give to the R.N.C.,” another political operative told Politico.