Trump and Republicans narrowly top Biden in April fundraising
12 May, 2020
President Donald Trump's re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee said on Monday they jointly raised $61.7 million in April, just beating the month's haul for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his party.
A Trump campaign statement said the April sum was an archive, bringing total cash readily available to $255 million. Biden said earlier in the day that his campaign and the Democratic National Committee raised $60.5 million combined in April.
The big fundraising figures came regardless of the coronavirus pandemic, which includes hammered the united states economy and disrupted fundraising for politicians. Both presidential individuals and their allies are beginning to ramp up pay for traffic campaigns in battleground states prior to the Nov. 3 general election.
"Once more the Trump campaign's colossal fundraising haul reaffirms that President Trump will lead an unstoppable juggernaut this November," Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale said in a statement.
But Biden's fundraising figure followed an archive total in March of $46.7 million for his campaign, more than three times the money that Trump managed that month.
"The trust you all have put in me as your presumptive nominee is humbling," Biden said in a statement emailed to supporters.
The average online donation was "only $32.63," Biden said, adding that contributors had made sacrifices regardless of the monetary uncertainty wreaked by the pandemic.
Still, Biden has been playing catch-up to Trump, who has been amassing an election war chest since 2017, according to disclosures filed by the two campaigns to the Federal Election Commission.
Biden became the Democrats' de facto nominee in early April after his last remaining rival, Senator Bernie Sanders, dropped out of your race, so that it is the first month where Biden had not been competing in fundraising with a challenger from the same party.
His campaign struggled early to improve funds, but now hopes the party's united front will help him build his coffers, as Sanders and other former rivals have endorsed him, and many are helping him with fundraising.
The US economy lost a staggering 20.5 million jobs in April, the steepest plunge in payrolls because the Great Depression, due to nationwide shutdowns to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
Fundraising events have largely moved online as the virus has upended American life, forcing millions of people in which to stay their homes and leading presidential campaigns to cancel public events and fundraising dinners.
Biden, a classic retail politician whose social media following pales in comparison to Trump's, has expressed frustration with the limitations of communicating with voters remotely.
But the freeze on in-person campaigning during the pandemic has had an upside for the former vice president, giving him additional time to court donors and shielding him from on-the-trail gaffes.
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