The campaign said in a statement that it raised a “record dollar fundraiser” when Trump faced off against President Biden in a rematch for the 2024 election.
They said the haul “nearly doubles the biggest day ever recorded for Trump’s crusade on the WinRed platform” and noted that the guilty verdicts “have awakened the MAGA movement like never before. “
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Former President Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower in New York on Thursday after being found guilty of 34 counts of first-degree falsification of records. (Felipe Ramales for Fox News Digital)
“Just minutes after the false trial verdict was announced, our virtual fundraising formula was defeated by support, and despite transient delays in line due to heavy traffic, President Trump raised $34. 8 million from small donors,” said Chris, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign. . LaCivita and Susie Wiles wrote in a statement.
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They pointed out that “not only the historical amount, but that 29. 7% of yesterday’s donors were new donors to the WinRed platform. “
And referring to the fall elections, LaCivita and Wiles reiterated that “President Trump is fighting to save our country and that November 5th is the day Americans will give the genuine verdict. “
Trump earned applause from his supporters when he commented Friday morning on what he described as a “record-breaking” fundraiser.
Former President Donald Trump speaks Friday at Trump Tower in New York. A day after a New York jury found him guilty on 34 counts, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee addressed the conviction and his most likely attempt to present his crusade in a new light. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)
Minutes after the verdict was read in the first trial of a president or former president in the country’s history, Trump’s team appealed to his supporters to raise money.
“Frifinish: Is this the end of America?” Trump asked in the email. “I have been convicted in a rigged political trial by a witch hunt. “
“My end-of-month fundraiser deadline is in DAYS!”Trump noted in the email, which included an image of the former president calling him a “political prisoner. “
WinRed, the Republican Party’s online fundraising platform used, among others, through the Trump campaign, closed its doors less than an hour after the verdict.
Former President Trump appears in court Thursday for his secret trial in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York. (Steven Hirsch-Pool/Getty Images)
LaCivita pleaded with donors experiencing a WinRed error message to sign up for Trump’s text message list or log back in and check again.
“If you are one of the millions of American patriots who need to donate to Donald Trump’s crusade and you receive an error message from @WINRED. . . Don’t give up! Reconnect and check again! Or text TRUMP to 88022. “LaCivita wrote in a tweet.
Biden’s Crusade Temporarily Swoops in on Trump’s Trial to Blame the Verdicts
The Trump crusade’s online page also directed donors to Anedot, another fundraising platform used during the Republican crusades.
Trump’s team also threw a cautionary shot at the campaigns of suffering Republicans, urging them not to try to raise money from the former president’s conviction to avoid the “diversion” of donations from Trump’s coffers.
Meanwhile, the former president’s main investigation drafts a memo on the eve of the verdict, stating that a conviction would have no electoral consequences.
President Biden speaks Wednesday at a crusade at Girard College in Philadelphia. Biden and Vice President Harris used the rally to launch a national crusade to woo Black voters. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post, Getty Images)
Biden’s re-election crusade also temporarily introduced calls for fundraising after the verdict.
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“Although a jury today found Donald Trump to be at fault, there is only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: through the ballot box,” Biden’s crusade wrote in a fundraising text addressed to supporters.
And he insisted that “if you’ve been waiting for the best time to make your first donation to Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, we’re here to tell you that it’s the big day. “
Trump points to his fundraising gap with Biden. In April, his crusade and the Republican National Committee outperformed Biden’s crusade and the Democratic National Committee for the first time.
Even as Trump ramped up his fundraising, Biden’s campaign still had a monetary value of between $84 million and $49 million at the end of April.
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