{"id":2282098,"date":"2024-06-23T10:30:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T14:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-raise-alarm-after-trump-closes-fundraising-gap-against-biden-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-06-23T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T14:34:09","slug":"democrats-raise-alarm-after-trump-closes-fundraising-gap-against-biden-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-raise-alarm-after-trump-closes-fundraising-gap-against-biden-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats raise alarm after Trump closes fundraising gap against Biden &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-raise-alarm-after-trump-closes-fundraising-gap-against-biden-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2282098&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Democrats are becoming increasingly \u200dalarmed as former\u2062 President Donald Trump surpasses President Joe Biden in fundraising \u2062for the 2024 campaign. Initially, \u2064Biden held a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illinois-dem-pays-another-25k-in-donor-money-to-political-rival-she-bribed\/\" title=\"Illinois Dem Pays Another K in Donor Money to Political Rival She Bribed\">significant financial advantage<\/a> over Trump,\u2064 but recent\u200b Federal Election Commission filings show Trump&#8217;s fundraising efforts\u2063 have notably intensified, doubling Biden&#8217;s May earnings ($75.4 million to\u2063 Biden&#8217;s $37.7 million). Consequently, Trump now possesses a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-sherrod-brown-has-more-cash-on-hand-than-his-three-gop-competitors-combined\/\" title=\"Sen. Sherrod Brown has a larger campaign fund than all three GOP rivals combined.\">larger campaign fund<\/a> ($116.6 million) compared to Biden\u2064 ($91.6 million).<\/p>\n<p>Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf expressed his \u2062concerns to \u2062Politico, highlighting\u200c the\u200d unexpected financial competitiveness of Trump, despite his criminal\u2064 convictions. The sentiment was echoed by a Biden donor who described a mood of &#8220;depression&#8221; among\u2062 Biden supporters due to the unexpected\u200c evening out\u200c of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/history-repeats-itself-democrats-are-using-tactics-of-the-marxists-of-1917-in-russia-to-steal-2020-election\/\" title=\"History Repeats Itself: Democrats Are Using Tactics of the Marxists of 1917 in Russia to Steal 2020 Election\">financial resources<\/a>. Meanwhile,\u200b Biden&#8217;s campaign officials emphasize\u2063 their strategic, efficient use of funds, focusing more on operations rather than \u200djust fundraising amounts, according to Biden deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Democrats are expressing increasing concern over the fact that former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> has caught up to, and surpassed, President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Joe Biden<\/a> in fundraising.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>For most of the 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>campaign<\/a>, Biden had a massive financial edge over Trump, an advantage Biden donors were hoping could decide the election. Such hopes have come to naught, however, as Trump has not only closed the fundraising gap but even surpassed Biden in fundraising.<\/p>\n<p>In May, according to Federal Election Commission filings, Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gretchen-whitmers-dark-money-hypocrisy\/\" title=\"Gretchen Whitmer\u2019s Dark Money Hypocrisy\">campaign committee raised<\/a> twice the amount that Biden\u2019s did \u2014 $75.4 million compared to $37.7 million. Trump now has a larger campaign chest than Biden, at $116.6 million compared to $91.6 million.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic strategist speaking with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/06\/23\/biden-trump-finances-00164566\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Politico\">Politico<\/a><\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/clearly-putin-is-weakened-former-cia-director-reacts-to-wagner-mutiny-in-russia\/\" title=\"Ex-CIA Director: Putin's Power Diminished by Wagner Mutiny in Russia.\">expressed astonishment<\/a> at the turnaround.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat Democrats should worry about is that it\u2019s even within distance \u2014 that the money is going on at Trump\u2019s side at such a clip,\u201d he said. \u201cYou would think a guy who\u2019s convicted of crimes would be nowhere, but he\u2019s everywhere financially. And that is a real problem for Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe challenger shouldn\u2019t even be close on the money side, especially a guy who\u2019s convicted of felonies,\u201d Sheinkopf added. \u201cHow is this possible, is what the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Democrats<\/a> should be asking \u2026 That\u2019s what they should be worried about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was the strategy of raising all this money on the front end so we could have this huge edge,\u201d a Biden donor told the outlet. \u201cThe whole point of it was to come out with a sizable cash advantage and, you know, we\u2019re now even and it\u2019s June. \u2026 I have no other word for it other than \u2018depression\u2019 among Biden supporters.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Biden campaign officials brushed off the concerns of some donors, arguing that their use of funds is more efficient than Trump, closing the gap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur campaign, from the moment we\u2019ve started, is more focused on what we\u2019re doing with our resources, rather than trying to play a game of who\u2019s raising what,\u201d Biden deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks told <em>Politico<\/em> in an interview. \u201cThat is where our investments are going, directly into field [operations].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not all Biden donors are despairing either. Alan Kessler, a Democratic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Pennsylvania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Pennsylvania<\/a> donor, argued that early fundraising is what counts, and Biden raised enough initially to likely decide the election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat early money counted because it allowed for Biden to build out all of these offices, which have been cranking along, and that\u2019s not something Trump can catch up on,\u201d he said. \u201cTrump can\u2019t get back February, March, April, and May, when the Biden campaign was getting boots on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> reached out to the Biden campaign for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Trump campaign viewed the surge in funding for Trump as vindicating their impression of growing enthusiasm for the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>president<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom fundraising, polling, crowds at public events or enthusiasm across the board with America\u2019s voters, there is more and more evidence that the momentum of President Trump coming out of a historic primary election season is growing as we move to November,\u201d Trump campaign spokesman Brian Hughes said in a statement to <em>Politico<\/em>. \u201cThe latest surge in fundraising and wiping out the campaign cash advantage in May reflects this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump and Biden are currently neck-and-neck in the polls, with a recent NPR\/PBS News\/Marist College national <a href=\"https:\/\/maristpoll.marist.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/NPR_PBS-News_Marist-Poll_USA-NOS-and-Tables_202406131412-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poll<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3049578\/biden-edges-out-trump-independents-poll-toss-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"showing\">showing<\/a> the two tied with 49% of the vote.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are growing worried as former President Donald Trump has overtaken President Joe Biden in fundraising. Initially, Biden held a significant financial lead for the 2024 campaign, which his supporters believed could be decisive. 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