Biden and Democrats raised more than $90 million in March

2024-04-06 13:18:01

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee said Saturday they had raised more than $90 million in March and ended the first quarter of the year with more than 192 million in cash, further expanding his economic advantage over Donald Trump and the Republicans.

The Biden campaign and its affiliated entities reported raising $187 million from January to March and that 96% of all donations were less than $200.

That total was bolstered by the more than $26 million Biden reported raising at a March 28 event at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan, attended by former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Trump anticipates raising $43 million at an event at the Florida home of billionaire investor John Paulson on Saturday. This would be a fundraising record for a single event.

The Biden campaign has said its fundraising success has allowed it to launch television and digital media campaigns in key states, and to work with the DNC and state parties to mobilize voters ahead of the November elections.

The campaign said the total of more than 192 million reached by March 31 is the highest number ever reached by a Democratic candidate. Some 1.6 million people have donated to the campaign since Biden announced in April 2023 that he was running for a second term. The campaign received more than 10 million in the 24 hours following the State of the Union address in early March.

“The amount of money we are raising is historic, and will go to the critical work of building a winning operation, focused solely on the voters who will decide this election: offices across the country, staff in swing states, and messaging in means used by voters,” Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez wrote in a statement.

At the same time, he mocked Trump’s fundraising, calling it “an impoverished operation that is funneling his limited funds from billionaires into paying his many legal fees.”

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