The campaign of former US President Donald Trump announced last night that $138.7 million had been raised in the past month – less than the amount that his new opponent in the November elections, Vice President Kamala Harris, raised in the first week of her candidacy for the White House, the Associated Press noted, cited by BTA.
Trump's campaign said it had $327 million in cash on hand in August, with the election just over three months away.
Harris's campaign has yet to release its July fundraising totals and has not said how much her campaign funds are, but says the vice president's entry into the race has sparked a wave of new donations and volunteers.< /p>
Previously, the former president's campaign, the Republican National Committee and other entities announced that they had raised $331 million in the three months to June. That means their July totals are above that pace. They may have been helped by the fact that Trump survived an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, which galvanized some of his supporters, and that he subsequently announced his vice-presidential candidacy – Ohio Senator JD Vance at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, AP notes.
Some Democrats once panicked at the prospect of the party losing in November to President Joe Biden. But donors gave enough money that Harris' team announced it had raised $200 million in the first week after Biden announced on July 21 that he was dropping his re-election bid and officially endorsing Harris.
Since then, the vice president has ramped up her travel schedule and released numerous ads featuring her biography and criticizing Trump. Some members of her party who thought Trump would win after the 81-year-old Biden's extremely poor performance in the June 27 debates now see a new chance with Harris, 59.
Harris is expected to become his party's official presidential nominee through a virtual vote by delegates to the Democratic National Convention in a process that will end Monday. She will likely name her vice presidential candidate at the same time.
The Democratic convention opens in Chicago on August 19.