With five and a half months until the November election, former President Donald Trump is trailing President Biden in many national polls and surveys in key battleground states that will likely decide the 2024 rematch.
And in April, Trump also led in monthly fundraising for the first time.
The president’s campaign announced Monday night that he and the Democratic National Committee raised more than $51 million last month.
That’s significantly less than the $76 million the former president and Republican National Committee raised in April, according to an announcement earlier this month.
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Former President Donald Trump is joined by Republican Party officials, allies and 2024 vice presidential candidates as he speaks at a Republican National Committee donor retreat in Palm Beach, Florida, May 4, 2024. (2024 Donald Trump campaign)
“@TeamTrump And the RNC outsold Biden by $25 million in April!,” the RNC advertised in a social media post.
Total fundraising has switched from March, when Biden and the DNC raised about $90 million, compared to $65.6 million for Trump and the RNC.
Biden has regularly outraised Trump in monthly fundraising, but Trump’s April haul came from a single event with big-time Republican donors in Palm Beach earlier in the month. It was boosted by a record $50.5 million raised by the former president’s campaign. , Florida, home of billionaire investor John Paulson.
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In its announcement, the Biden campaign highlighted the $473 million the president has raised in the one year since he formally launched his reelection effort.
They also revealed that they had a huge fund of $192 million as of the end of April.
They touted that President Trump was “significantly underfunded” and “has the highest cash reserves ever of any Democratic candidate at this point in the cycle.”
Former President Bill Clinton, former President Barack Obama, and President Joe Biden. (Getty Images)
The Biden campaign also highlighted small donations, saying, “The majority of our fundraising in April came from grassroots donors, with 1 million more supporters added to our email list in the month alone.” ” he said.
They also took aim at President Trump, saying his campaign was “focused almost entirely on courting billionaire donors instead of building a sustained grassroots fundraising program, and has “The funds are being used up at an early stage.”
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Trump campaign senior advisers Chris Lacivita and Susie Wiles pointed to the power of grassroots fundraising in an announcement earlier this month, saying, “Half of the money raised came from small donors, and our It’s clear that the infrastructure is revitalized.”
And they vowed to “raise the money we need to deliver victory in November.”
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But the Biden campaign said its fundraising advantage in recent months has allowed it to ramp up big ad buys in key states and build a strong ground team in battleground states.
Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said the money raised will “invest in opening offices, hiring organizers, and communications across battleground states to mobilize a coalition of voters who will decide this election.” “We will get the funds we need to do so.”
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