The solid month of July fundraising left the campaign with $37 million in cash-on-hand while the joint Trump Victory Fund shared by the Trump campaign, the RNC and several state Republican parties held another $37 million.
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“There is great unity in my campaign, perhaps greater than ever before”.
On Monday, he fired a senior adviser, Ed Brookover, who had been hired to serve as a liaison between the campaign and the Republican National Committee.
Priebus and the Trump confidants, as well as numerous GOP lawmakers, have been particularly irked by the candidate’s repeated criticism of an American Muslim family whose son, a U.S. Army captain, was killed in Iraq. Her campaign also courted former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who delivered an endorsement speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last week. Several media outlets reported on Wednesday that Trump had rejected advice from his staff to drop the dispute.
Late on Tuesday, Meg Whitman, a prominent Republican fundraiser and chief executive of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, endorsed Clinton’s White House bid, calling Trump an “authoritarian character” and a threat to democracy.
The longtime Republican and former California gubernatorial candidate said in an interview with the New York Times that she would use her financial resources and provide a “substantial” donation to Clinton’s campaign.
Trump stands to have more financial independence than he did a month ago, when nearly half of the $51 million he raised went to the Republican National Committee, not his campaign.
Donald Trump’s campaign posted $80 million in fundraising last month in conjunction with the Republican Party, powered by a small-dollar program that is allowing him to slowly close the gap with Hillary Clinton.
Trump still struggles mightily to collect checks from the country’s top donors, and he still began the month trailing Clinton’s campaign by $20 million. He has contributed more than $56 million to his presidential run so far, the campaign said.
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Clinton has enjoyed a bounce following her convention last week, and the Fox News survey shows one of the largest leads in general election polls yet. A CNN/ORC poll this week showed Clinton with a 9-point edge in a head-to-head matchup with Trump.
