WASHINGTON — President Trump’s re-election marketing campaign and the Republican Nationwide Committee stated Monday they'd raised $212 million with
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s re-election marketing campaign and the Republican Nationwide Committee stated Monday they’d raised $212 million within the first three months of 2020, a sign that regardless of a world pandemic that has put a halt on high-dollar fund-raising occasions, Mr. Trump’s operation has continued to lift cash at a brisk clip.
The marketing campaign and committee stated they’d raised greater than $63 million in March, a month that noticed a lot of the nation retreat into quarantine as a part of a nationwide effort to mitigate the unfold of the coronavirus, and had a mixed $240 million in money available. The 2 teams additionally stated they’d raised greater than $677 million in complete over the re-election cycle, noting that was $270 million greater than President Barack Obama’s re-election marketing campaign had raised on the identical level within the 2012 marketing campaign cycle.
“Trump and the R.N.C. are on observe to have $400 million money available by July 4, an extremely robust monetary place on this political surroundings,” stated Scott W. Reed, a senior political strategist on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The robust quarter for a marketing campaign that has been well-funded from the beginning served as the newest reminder of the money benefit that the incumbent president has over former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the presumptive Democratic nominee. Mr. Biden faces the identical headwinds as Mr. Trump in relation to elevating cash from huge donors at in-person occasions, however has an enormous money hole he wants to shut.
Mr. Biden, who had deliberate to start consolidating the occasion’s huge donors behind his marketing campaign simply because the virus shut down a lot of the economic system, has not but launched his first quarter fund-raising numbers. However a spokesman stated he raised $33 million within the first half of March.
Over the previous month, the Trump marketing campaign has needed to pull down big-dollar, in-person fund-raising occasions due to the coronavirus. But it surely has soldiered forward with its small-donor fund-raising gimmicks, hawking “Keep America Great” hats signed by the president and an Easter sale on merchandise in email solicitations that make little to no mention of the global pandemic.
Some national polls show that trust in Mr. Trump’s leadership through the current health and economic crisis is falling, even among groups that will be critical to his re-election chances, like older voters who supported him in 2016. But Brad Parscale, the Trump campaign manager, credited the crisis with the sustained financial support. “Americans can see President Trump leading this nation through a serious crisis and they are responding with their continued enthusiastic support for his re-election,” he said in a statement.
Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the R.N.C., said it was “clear that voters are responding to his bold leadership.”