Former President Donald Trump outraised President Joe Biden in April for the primary time in 2024, a possible sign that Trump's trial in New York could give his campaign a fundraising boost.
Biden's political effort said in a news release Tuesday that the joint campaign, joint fundraising committees and the Democratic National Committee raised $51 million in April. Trump card and the Republican National Committee recently announced it raised $76 million last month.
The exact numbers can’t be verified until July, when the joint Biden-Trump fundraising committees file their quarterly financial filings with the Federal Election Commission.
Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee had its best month of the 12 months to date in April, raising about $32 million. However, the Democratic National Committee barely exceeded them, posting around $35 million in April.
Excluding any money from the RNC or PACs, Trump card'The United States Campaign Committee reported raising $9.4 million in April. Biden's campaign committee raised $24.2 million throughout the same period, in accordance with recent FEC filings released late Monday evening.
Trump and the RNC's success got here the identical month when the previous president attended a serious fundraiser at Wall Street veteran John Paulson's Florida home, benefiting certainly one of his joint fundraising committees called Trump 47.
According to the Trump campaign and the RNC, the event raised over $50 million between the Trump campaign, the RNC, his political motion committee Save America, and over a dozen state parties.
Still, Trump's apparent lead over Biden suggests that the previous president's try to raise money from his trial in New York could possibly be paying off. Trump's first day in court was April 15.
Despite his legal hurdles, a growing variety of wealthy donors who supported Trump's two previous runs for the White House have recently returned to his corner.
Trump's campaign raised donations through email blasts throughout the trial and received hours of free media as cable news networks repeatedly interrupted live interviews with reporters outside the Manhattan courthouse.
Since April 19, Trump's team has spent over $300,000 on Facebook ads, with many spots focused on his trial and fundraising for his re-election campaign.
The documents also highlighted the differences within the personnel and implementation of the 2 campaigns.
Biden's re-election campaign reported spending about $3 million on payroll in April and employing greater than 250 people, in accordance with one Political evaluation the raw data from 1000’s of line items.
Meanwhile, Trump's campaign spent just $550,000 on payroll in April, paying around 65 employees.
Biden has already established networks of local campaign offices in key battleground states, while Trump has a really small presence in most of them.
But it's not clear how much of a difference having staff on the bottom makes in modern presidential elections, where voters see candidates throughout social media and national cable news.
During Trump's successful presidential campaign in 2016, for instance Experts on each side of the aisle predicted that his refusal to speculate in large networks of paid staff across the country would derail his bid for the White House.
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