Donald Trump and the Republican Party reported raising more than $65.6 million from donors in March. This happens after the former president virtually secured the Republican nomination for the November elections and put a new leadership at the head of the party, the Associated Press reported, quoted by BTA.
Trump and the Republican National Committee (NRC) end the month with $93.1 million in campaign accounts, a significant increase in receipts that is important in the race against President Joe Biden and the Democrats, who have a lead in this metric.
"Our campaign, in cooperation with the NCRP, has steadily and methodically increased its fundraising efforts, and our March report is a testament to the broad support President Trump enjoys among voters across the political spectrum." said Susie Wiles, a senior adviser on Trump's staff. "Republicans may not enjoy the self-serving generosity of Hollywood and Silicon Valley elites, but President Trump is proud to count on the donations of the very voters who are the backbone of our country, and that will has its positive result, which will be felt both among the Republicans and in the elections themselves."
Biden and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) did not submit a report on the income from donations for March, but their headquarters still indicated that they managed to attract $53 million in February and ended the month with $155 million dollars on campaign accounts. Last week, Biden organized a campaign fundraiser in New York that featured former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, and the Democrat's headquarters said at the time that the event generated a record $26 million for such a political event in the United States. .
Biden benefited from the fact that he could start fundraising for his campaign right from the start, while Trump first had to devote his efforts to defeating his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination.
Meanwhile, a New York court refused to grant Trump's request to postpone the merits of the case against him for buying the silence of former porn actress Stormy Daniels, the agencies reported.
The accusation against the billionaire in this case is that in 2016, a month before his victory in the presidential election, he paid Daniels the sum of $130,000 through his lawyer Michael Cohen to get her not to divulge information about an intimate relationship between her and Trump in the period 2006 - 2007
Judge Juan Mercan accepted that "the defendant had ample opportunity to plead his claim of immunity from prosecution as a former president long before March 7, 2024," when the adjournment motion was filed by the lawyers his.
Thus, the trial will essentially start on April 15.