Joe Biden campaign amassed $155M in cash on hand, raised $53M last month

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That dwarfs the funding behind Donald Trump's campaign.

President Joe Biden’s campaign has amassed $155 million in cash on hand for the 2024 election, far exceeding the in-hand total for his Republican opponent, Donald Trump.

The President raised $53 million alone last month, which was the strongest grassroots fundraising month since the campaign launched, according to campaign officials. Among those efforts was a contest for supporters to attend a fundraiser on March 28 in New York with Biden and former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton that raised $4 million last month.

“The enthusiasm we’re picking up as we go around the country is real,” Biden said in a radio interview with WNOV 860 in Wisconsin last week. “We’ve raised a whole lot of money. We have 1.5 million donors, including 500,000 are brand new, they’re small donors; 97% of the donations under $200.”

Both Biden and Trump clinched their party nominations last week, setting up a 2024 rematch.

Trump’s February figures have not been released. By the end of January, his two major committees had just $36.6 million in cash on hand, and those committees collectively spent more than they took in that month. A major driver of those costs was millions of dollars in legal fees from Trump’s myriad court cases. The figures are only a partial snapshot of the Trump operation’s finances because other branches won’t have to disclose their numbers until April.

Biden’s cash on hand total is the highest amassed by any Democratic candidate in history during this point in the campaign, the campaign said. Emails to Biden supporters that focused on concerns over Trump helped drive up support last month.

“While Joe Biden and Democrats continue to put up historic grassroots fundraising numbers, Donald Trump and the RNC are in financial disarray,” said Jaime Harrison, leader of the Democratic National Committee. “Our grassroots supporters know that the stakes of this year could not be higher, and they’re chipping in like our democracy is on the line — because it is.”

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Republished with permission of The Associated Press.

Associated Press


14 comments

  • Dont Say FLA

    March 17, 2024 at 1:32 pm

    Maybe Joe could lend Trump some money for his legal penalties.

  • GOP Fascist Party

    March 17, 2024 at 1:51 pm

    Rather have a guy in a coma as president than a far right mad man who lied 40,000 times and wracked up 90 plus felonies.

    • Christian Nationalist florida

      March 18, 2024 at 4:53 am

      💯%

  • PeterH

    March 17, 2024 at 3:48 pm

    America is fortunate to have Biden in the White House surrounded by the most competent and qualified advisors.

    • Impeach Biden

      March 17, 2024 at 4:57 pm

      Thanks for the humor. He and his administration is completely incompetent. I give you Granholm, Buttegieg, and Mayorkas as exhibit A.

      • Christian Nationalist florida

        March 18, 2024 at 12:51 am

        You J6s are getting the Ashlii Babbit treatment this time.

      • rick whitaker

        March 19, 2024 at 4:31 pm

        im, you mentioned 3 of the best people in the cabinet, how does that help your case you helpless fool.

    • Christian Nationalist florida

      March 18, 2024 at 4:53 am

      Four more years!

  • Earl Pitts "The Big Voice On The Right" American

    March 17, 2024 at 6:42 pm

    Good evening America,
    TWO WORDS:
    UKRANIAN KICKBACKS.
    Now I, Earl Pitts American, have great respect for “The Office of The President of the USA” but this has gone too far.
    Earl does not want to do this HOWEVER:
    Truth, Justice, and The American Way “Force My Sage Hand”.
    I, Earl Pitts American, Here-By issue an “All Powerful, All Critical, and Sage CHASTIZEMENT on all the Dook 4 Brsins Puppet Masters behind the 8IDEN ADMINISTRATION.
    *not on Joe as the poor demented soul “KNOWS NOT WHAT HE DOES”.
    The irrevocable “Sage Chastizement” has been put in place.
    Watch America and “KNOW THE SAGE WISDOM OF EARL”.
    Watch the news and bear whitness to “The Sage Earl of Politics”.
    Thank you America,
    Earl Pitts “THE BIG VOICE ON THE RIGHT” American

    • Christian Nationalist florida

      March 18, 2024 at 12:52 am

      J6er Hamas Earl wants to be martyred.

      Oblige him.

      • JD

        March 18, 2024 at 8:19 am

        Shitts promised us all he’d take of that himself and let out his Sage Wisdom with one quick pull. He’s slacking like the rest of the BlowHard GOPer grifters in Florida. Do your duty Shitts!

      • Earl Pitts "The Big Voice On The Right" American

        March 18, 2024 at 6:19 pm

        CHASTIZED!

    • rick whitaker

      March 19, 2024 at 2:17 pm

      WARNING TROLL COMMENT BY EARL SHITTS
      TWO WORDS: EARL REDNECK

  • Linwood Wright

    March 18, 2024 at 7:46 pm

    And Trump is broke. LOL.

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