WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee say they raised $141 million in May, a massive fundraiser that raised tens of millions of dollars in the wake of his guilty verdict in his criminal hush-money trial.
Trump’s campaign doesn’t have to disclose its fundraising to the Federal Election Commission until later this month. But the decision to release the figures early underlines how the country views the wave of contributions as evidence that last Thursday’s verdict has energized the former president’s supporters and as a sign of his efforts to return to normal. White House won’t bother.
President Joe Biden‘s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on its own fundraising totals in May. Trump and the Republican Party reported raising $76 million in April, which for the first time exceeded the more than $51 million Biden and the Democratic National Committee reported that month.
It’s unclear how much Trump and the GOP spent in May. But the amount could help them close the money gap with Biden that has persisted throughout the race.
Trump’s campaign said in a news release Monday that it had received more than two million donations in the month of May, with an average value of $70.27. More than a third of that revenue – 37.6% – came in the form of online contributions in the 24 hours after the verdict was announced, the report said.
About a quarter of the donors were new to the campaign.
“We are moved by the outpouring of support for President Donald J. Trump. The American people saw through Crooked Joe Biden’s rigged trial and sent Biden and the Democrats a strong message: the REAL verdict will come on November 5,” Trump Campaign senior advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles said in a statement.
The campaign announced last week that it had raised more than $50 million online in the 24 hours after the Manhattan jury announced its verdict, making Trump the first former president — and the first presumptive major party nominee — in office. the history of the country was convicted of a crime. .
He will be sentenced on July 11.
