by Robert Schmad
Former President Donald Trump raised about $130 million in August, his campaign announced Wednesday night.
Trump number of collections are slightly lower than almost 140 million dollars the former president brought in July when his campaign initiated fundraising campaign a few days after it was shot by a failed gunman on July 13. Harris’ campaign did not release August fundraising figures, but she likely outshone Trump when Harris’ campaign manager, Jen O’Malley Dillon released an Aug. 25 memo claiming the vice president had raised $540 million since President Joe Biden withdrew on July 21, including $82 million during the week of the Democratic National Convention.
“With Republicans united and a growing number of independents and disaffected Democrats crossing party lines, the Trump-Vance campaign has momentum heading into the final stretch of the race,” Trump campaign senior adviser Brian Hughes said in a press release announcing the fundraising numbers. “These August fundraising numbers are a reflection of that movement and will propel President Trump’s America First movement back into the White House so we can undo the terrible failures of Harris and Biden.”
Despite the enthusiasm of the Trump campaign, Republican Party leaders are raising the alarm behind closed doors and publicly about how a huge financial disparity has emerged between the two parties. Liberals have a commanding lead in ad spending in almost all competitive Senate races, and the Congressional Leadership Fund, the main super PAC working to elect Republicans to the House of Representatives, is $70 million behind its Democratic counterpart in ad spending, According to to Politico.
“The only thing that’s keeping us from having a great night in November is the huge financial disparity that our party is facing right now,” National Republican Senatorial Committee Executive Director Jason Thielman previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “We’re on track to win the majority, but if something doesn’t change drastically in the next six weeks, we’re going to lose winnable seats.”
Republican parties across the state number of states in connection with the upcoming parliamentary elections in November, Arizona and Wisconsinwere also outraised and outspent by their Democratic Party counterparts.
Before Democrats swapped Biden for Harris, Trump’s campaign had overcome his Democratic rival’s financial advantage, Politico reported. The Trump campaign says it had $295 million in cash at the end of August.
The campaign said the average donation to Trump was $56, with 98% of donations being under $200.
Trump is no stranger to running campaigns in which he is in a delicate financial position, having defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016 even though he only had half the money and narrowly lost to Biden in 2020 despite a 3-to-1 advantage in financial support in the final month of the election.
“The Trump team has the money, the message, the momentum and a candidate who works harder than anyone else in politics,” Karoline Leavitt, national press secretary for the Trump campaign, told DCNF.
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Robert Schmad is a reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore.CC BY-SA 2.0.
