Trump raised $35M this spring as ex-president doubled his quarterly fundraiser after being indicted in the Stormy Daniels hush-hush case and later for mishandling classified documents
- Former President Donald Trump raised $35 million in the second quarter
- The reporting period began two days after his initial indictment
- He almost doubled the $18.8 million he raised from January to March
Former President Donald Trump raised a whopping $35 million during the second quarter of the year and amid two landmark criminal indictments.
A campaign official confirmed the dollar figure to DailyMail.com.
It was money donated to both the Trump campaign and the ex-president’s political action committee, Save America.
The amount is nearly double the $18.8 million Trump raised in the first quarter, as he kept a low profile after announcing his 2024 reelection bid in mid-November.
Neither President Joe Biden, with whom Trump could run in a general election, nor Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, his main rival, have yet to release their second-quarter fundraising numbers.
Former President Donald Trump, seen Saturday at a major rally in Pickens, South Carolina, has raised $35 million in the second quarter of 2023, his campaign confirmed to DailyMail.com
Former President Donald Trump will appear in court on April 4 with his team of lawyers on charges related to the Stormy Daniels hush money investigation. This charge led to millions of dollars in donations to the Trump campaign and his Save America PAC
The reporting period includes the donations that flow to the campaign and the PAC from April 1 to June 30.
The first indictment against Trump came two days earlier, on March 30, on New York State charges related to his role in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.
The campaign said it raised $4 million during the last 48 hours of its Q1 reporting period, representing nearly one-fourth of Trump’s total donations during that period.
He announced that he would face charges for a second time on June 8.
Trump was indicted on 37 federal charges of mishandling classified documents and pleaded not guilty in a federal courtroom in Miami just days later.
He raised $6.6 million in the wake of the second indictment, his campaign said last month.
Former President Donald Trump waves to a crowd after visiting a popular Cuban restaurant in Miami following his day in federal court after being charged for the second time in less than three months
Trump’s polls have held steady during the legal turmoil.
The polling average of Real Clear Politics the ex-president is 30.9 points ahead of DeSantis, whose PAC spokesman Steve Cortes said Sunday he feared Trump was now the “runaway front-runner.”
Biden announced his re-election campaign in late April, so his second-quarter filings will be the first spike in how much Democrats donate to their flag bearer.
At the time, an NBC News poll found that 70 percent of registered voters no longer wanted to see Biden walk.
Plagued by lackluster approval ratings, the president has made headlines for both verbal and physical stumbles, as at 80 he is the oldest in the country.
At the same time, another 60 percent of registered voters in the NBC News poll said they also did not want Trump, 77, to run.