WASHINGTON — Republican former president Donald Trump The campaign and affiliated organizations announced Thursday that they raised $138.7 million last month, less than his new opponent in the November election, Vice President Kamala Harriswhich she recorded during the opening week of her White House campaign.
Trump’s campaign says it has $327 million in cash on hand for August, with the election now just over three months away. Harris’ campaign has not disclosed how much money it raised in July or how much it has in campaign funds, but it says the vice president’s entry into the race has prompted a surge in new donations and volunteers.
The former president’s campaign, the Republican National Committee and other agencies previously announced they had raised $331 million in the three months through June, putting their totals in July above that level.
They may have benefited from Trump surviving an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, which mobilized some of his supporters, and then announcing his running mate, the senator from Ohio. JD Vanceat the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
Some Democrats once panicked about the party’s prospects of losing the president in November Joe BidenBut donors gave enough that Harris’ team announced it $200 million raised in the first week after Biden revealed on July 21 that he abandon his re-election bid and formally endorse Harris.
The vice president has since stepped up her travel schedule and unleashed a flurry of ads presenting her personal story and criticizing Trump. Some in her party who believed Trump was the favorite behind the 81-year-old Biden in November dismal debate performance A new race is scheduled for June 27 with the 59-year-old Harris.
Harris will become her party’s formal presidential nominee against virtual voting of delegates to the Democratic National Convention in a process that will conclude on Monday, and is expected to call her running mate around the same time. The Democratic convention begins in Chicago on August 19.