Trump raises $51 million with GOP in June, including $26 million for his campaign
Source: The Washington Post
Donald Trump raised more than $26 million for his campaign and another $25 million in conjunction with the Republican National Committee in June, a hefty haul that his campaign hopes will put to rest anxieties in the party about his fundraising prowess.
The combined $51 million falls short of the $68.5 million that Democratic contender Hillary Clinton and the Democratic party collected in June, which included $40.5 million she raised directly for her campaign. But it was the biggest monthly take by far for the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, who did not begin to hold fundraising events until late May. And it suggests that Trump has the ability to quick inject large sums of money into his campaign coffers by tapping into the fervor of his supporters.
Much of the campaign's money appears to have come in during the final 10 days of the month, when Trumps operation began aggressively soliciting money online for the first time. The Trump campaign announced Wednesday that more than 400,000 supporters made donations in June, with more than $3 million coming in just one day. That indicates that the billionaire will be able to post far larger totals in the coming months if he continues to actively urge his backers to give.
Trump also contributed $3.8 million personally last month, bringing his total donations to $55 million, his campaign said.
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tonyt53
(5,737 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)so much for the "Trump can't raise money" narrative popular of late. People seem to forget that anyone gullible enough to vote for Trump is gullible enough to sell a kidney and peddle their children to raise the money to give to Trump.
If people will cough up $100 million for a fake Ark in Kentucky, they will cough up many times that for the Great Cheetoh Messiah(tm)
Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)Trump has a tendency to flat out lie when it comes to money.
BlueNoMatterWho
(880 posts)Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)BlueNoMatterWho
(880 posts)And the media is reporting it as fact!
christx30
(6,241 posts)But in my defense, it expired in April, and I was trying to clean out my wallet.
CrowCityDem
(2,348 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,046 posts)No one was going to give a dime, remember? He was independently wealthy,
beholden to no one
These donors have so much money they don't know what to do with it
The day I give my hard earned cash to a BILLIONAIRE is the day I check
into a mental hospital
I even boycott companies owned by Billionaires, to the extent I can, because
they are no longer delivering value. The prices go up, the products shrink.
BlueNoMatterWho
(880 posts)Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)n/t
bluedigger
(17,085 posts)His campaign is still half staffed and spending nothing on the media. Should buy a lot of hats. And new sod for all those free rounds of golf they are going to donate.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Arkana
(24,347 posts)4lbs
(6,831 posts)The "news" of this came soon after last week's talk of Trump's campaign being near bankrupt.