Republican National Committee co-chairwoman Lara Trump suggested there is a correlation between Donald Trump‘s criminal trial and recent fundraising.
While Trump is largely kept off the campaign trail due to his trial in New York, where the Republican presidential candidate is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in order to allegedly pay hush money to multiple women, he continues to fundraise. According to his daughter-in-law, Democrats intended the trial’s timing “by design.”
“They want to keep Donald Trump trapped in a courtroom and not able to go out and campaign and their hope is that somehow that helps Joe Biden. But it’s amazing to see, it’s almost like Sylvester the Cat and Tweety Bird. When Sylvester goes hard after Tweety Bird, it always backfires, and that’s exactly what’s happening to the Democrats right now,” Trump said on Sunday Morning Futures.
A bump in RNC fundraising coincided with the day the former president appeared in a New York courtroom to begin the jury selection for his trial. The campaign raised $1.5 million after the first day, then doubled that amount three days later, and more donations have come in since.
“At the RNC and Trump campaign, we announced our April fundraising exceeded our expectations. We raised $76 million. And the beauty of that is the average donation, Maria, is under $30,” Trump explained. “That means the people of this country understand what’s at stake, they understand what is happening to this man, this ‘lawfare’ that is being waged against him in an attempt to interfere in an election, and they are fighting back.”
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Meanwhile, the Biden campaign has yet to release its April fundraising data.
This comes after the RNC and Trump raised $65.6 million in March. Earlier this month, Trump hosted a fundraiser that fetched $50.5 million, a record for a single political fundraiser. The latest donations only continue to close the gap between the two presumptive nominees.
