The official campaign organization of the House Republicans The highest daily transportation volume record was broken. A major shift has occurred this election cycle following former President Donald Trump’s unprecedented conviction in Manhattan.
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) raised at least $300,000 on Thursday, surpassing the $175,000 in donations it received after the Oct. 25 election of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana).
The intake of NRCC is Punchbowl NewsThe committee is chaired by Rep. Richard Hudson (R-North Carolina).
“The American people hate the way our justice system was used to convict President Trump,” said NRCC national spokesman Will Reinert.
“They are loosening their purse strings to protest Joe Biden and House Democrats’ fraudulent trial, and the final verdict will be on the November ballot.”
Trump, 77, was convicted by a Manhattan jury of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to hide evidence of a $130,000 “hush payment” paid to porn star Stormy Daniels in the final days of the 2016 campaign to cover up an alleged 2006 affair.
As the sentence was handed down, a crowd of pro- and anti-Trump protesters gathered outside the Manhattan courthouse, waving Trump 2024 flags and signs declaring that they were “not above the law” depending on their viewpoint.
The Republican Party’s official donation portal, WinRed, crashed less than an hour after the ruling, and House Republican leader, Speaker Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Encourage donations.
On Friday morning, the Trump campaign announced that it had raised a staggering $34.8 million since the candidate’s conviction.
One of the Trump campaign officials He told the Wall Street Journal A fundraiser was held Thursday night at a private home.
Lee Zeldin, a former Long Island congressman and Trump campaign surrogate, said on The X show that it couldn’t have been “easier” to make a “big request” for $800,000 in donations to the former president’s joint fundraising committee that night.
“I am a political prisoner! Convicted in a rigged political witch hunt trial. I did nothing wrong!” a message was posted to Truth Social by the Trump National Committee’s Joint Fundraising Committee after the jury’s verdict was reported.
“Your support is the only thing standing between us and total tyranny!” the desperate plea continued. “So I need 10 million true MAGA patriots to join together and proudly shout: I SUPPORT TRUMP!”
The Trump campaign raised $4.18 million the day after he was arrested and had his mug shot taken at the Fulton County, Georgia, jail in August.
The Georgia and New York City cases, along with federal indictments in Washington, D.C. and South Florida, are two of four criminal indictments filed against the former president ahead of the 2024 election.
Trump is scheduled to be sentenced in Manhattan on July 11, a week before he formally accepts the Republican presidential nomination. His lawyers have vowed to appeal the sentence “as soon as possible.”
“We expect this case to be overturned on appeal and for Donald Trump to be elected president in November,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), a close ally of Trump, posted on X on Thursday.
“I’m pretty sure the verdict will be overturned,” Johnson said in an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt on Friday morning.
“We know that Michael Cohen perjured himself on the stand. He should have been censured as a witness, but he wasn’t and this entire case is based on his testimony,” he said.
“This means the matter will drag on until the verdict is up for another month, and then until Parliament,” he added. “That’s the game.”
