Trump ups his ante with September fundraising haul

Former President Trump's campaign said connected Wednesday that they hauled successful implicit $160 cardinal successful fundraising successful September, successful figures shared with Fox News. 

The haul by the erstwhile president's run is up from the astir $130 cardinal that Trump's assorted fundraising committees brought successful during the period of August. 

Trump faces a ample fundraising shortage to Vice President Kamala Harris, with conscionable nether 5 weeks to spell until Election Day successful November.

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Republican statesmanlike nominee erstwhile President Donald Trump astatine a run rally astatine Bayfront Convention Center successful Erie, Pa., Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke) (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke)

The Harris run announced past period that it raked successful a staggering $361 cardinal successful August, astir triple Trump's fundraising. 

The Harris run has yet to study its September fundraising figures.

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The Trump campaign, successful revealing its fundraising numbers, said that it had $283.1 cardinal cash-on-hand arsenic of the extremity of September. That's down somewhat from the $295 cardinal it had successful its coffers a period earlier.

The Harris campaign, successful its announcement past month, reported $404 cardinal cash-on-hand.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a run lawsuit successful Madison, Wisconsin, connected Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Trump's team, successful releasing their latest figures, showcased their small-dollar grassroots fundraising, saying the mean donation they received was $60 and that 96% of their contributions were little than $200.

The Biden run and the Democratic National Committee enjoyed a fundraising pb implicit Trump and the Republican National Committee earlier this year. But Trump and the RNC topped Biden and the DNC by $331 cardinal to $264 cardinal during the 2nd 4th of 2024 fundraising.

Biden enjoyed a little fundraising surge aft his disastrous show successful his precocious June statement with Trump arsenic donors concisely shelled retired large bucks successful a motion of enactment for the 81-year-old president.

But Biden's halting and shaky statement transportation besides instantly fueled questions astir his carnal and intelligence quality to service different 4 years successful the White House and spurred a rising chorus of calls from wrong his ain enactment for the president to extremity his bid for a 2nd term. The little surge successful fundraising didn't past and, by aboriginal July, began to importantly dilatory down. 

Biden bowed retired of the 2024 contention July 21, and the enactment rapidly consolidated astir Harris, who instantly saw her fundraising soar, spurred by small-dollar donations.

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When asked astir the fundraising deficit, Republican National Committee chair Michael Whatley told Fox News Digital past period that "the Democrats person a ton of money. The Democrats ever person a ton of money."

Vice President Kamala Harris and erstwhile President Donald Trump. (Getty Images)

However, helium emphasized that "we perfectly person the resources that we request to get our connection retired to each the voters that we’re talking to and consciousness precise comfy that we’re going to beryllium capable to spot this run through, and we’re going to triumph connected November 5."

Fundraising, on with polling, is simply a cardinal metric successful run authorities and a measurement of a candidate's popularity and their campaign's strength. The wealth raised tin beryllium utilized - among different things - to prosecute staff, grow grassroots outreach and get-out-the-vote efforts, wage to nutrient and tally ads connected TV, radio, integer and mailers, and for campaigner travel.

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