Republican Donald Trump raked in $51 million in June donations to fuel his presidential ambitions, his campaign reported Wednesday.
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Trump’s campaign said more than 400,000 supporters donated cash in June, and more than $3 million was raised in just one day.
Democratic rival Hillary Clinton raised $68.5 million in June – $40.5 million for her campaign and $28 million for national and local Democratic parties, her aides said last week.
In addition, Trump personally contributed Dollars 3.8 million to the campaign this month.
By the end of June, Clinton had raised about $288 million directly for her campaign and had more than $44 million in the bank. That paltry total – and the fact that Trump began June with just $1.3 million in the bank – astonished party leaders and fundraisers.
“I don’t think Trump hates Jewish people, but I know some of his people do, in addition to black people, Mexicans, Muslims – you know, most people”, Noah said. Lewandowski, while working for Trump, signed that non-disclosure agreement that prohibits almost everyone in his campaign to release any confidential or disparaging information about Trump, his family or his companies, according to AP which broke that story.
Though he is still lagging behind Clinton, it appears that Trump raised significantly more in June than in May. Those two committees collect contributions for the Trump campaign and the RNC.
The Tennessee senator and chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee told reporters that he “very much appreciated being considered in that way” but had decided the job of vice president just wasn’t for him.
Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, was attacked for going against his heritage by supporting the divisive Republican front-runner.
In a somewhat convoluted statement, Trump announced through fundraising emails his campaign had raised $19m and the Trump Make America Great Again Committee, a joint effort of Trump and the RNC, had raised $6.6m.
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Donald Trump has become 15 times the campaign fundraiser he was one month ago. “But it’s still far short of the online fundraising pace that even the Democratic runner-up had set back in the spring”, Ian Hines, a digital strategist and fundraiser for Republican candidates and a vocal Trump critic, said in an email. He held 22 fundraising events in conjunction with the RNC since late May, bringing in $25 million. Debbie Wasserman Schultz tweeted, “We can’t let anti-Semitism from the Trump campaign go unaddressed”.
