Trump, who previously announced he would be self-funding his candidacy, raised over $26 million from supporters last month. According to the campaign, 400,000 people donated, and 94 percent of those donations were for less than $200.
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In a statement, Trump touted that he had given an additional $3.8m to his campaign, raising his total contributions for the cycle to $55m.
“We just started our fundraising efforts in the last week of May and we are extremely pleased with the broad-based support in the last five weeks for the Trump Campaign and Trump Victory”, the campaign said in a statement. He raised another $25 million for the Republican Party, bringing his fundraising totals for the last week of May and all of June to $55 million.
The Clinton campaign’s access to cash has enabled it to spend tens of millions of dollars more than Trump to build up voter contact operations and advertisements ahead of the November election.
Trump’s campaign did not immediately clarify how much money came in one month versus the other, or how much went to his campaign versus Republican committees. But it was the biggest monthly take by far for the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, who did not begin to hold fundraising events until late May. In May, Trump raised just $3 million. They warned that the candidate’s fundraising deficit could hurt down-ticket Republicans counting on a well-funded RNC get-out-the-vote operation.
Later Wednesday afternoon, Trump appealed to his Twitter followers for donations, tweeting, “To all of my twitter followers, please contribute whatever you can to the campaign”. Corker, who is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he’d already told Trump he wasn’t comfortable with being vice president, a position he called a “highly political job, and that’s not who I am”. That’s more than three times what Trump has collected through his campaign and his joint-fundraising operations with the RNC.
It remains to be seen whether the real estate tycoon can come close to matching Clinton’s fundraising totals – or whether he will need to.
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Hillary Clinton has aired 20,000 TV ad spots since June 8, the day after she became the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee. His campaign did not say how much it had on hand going into July. Trump brought in $89.5 million during the same period, including $50 million of his own money.
