Biden and Democrats raised $51 million in April, far less than Trump and the GOP’s $76 million
Associated PressWASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee said Monday that they raised more than $51 million in April, falling well short of the $76 million that Donald Trump and the Republican Party reported taking in for the month. Biden and his party had routinely outraised his predecessor, but Trump’s April haul was boosted by a record-setting $50.5 million his campaign reported taking in during a single event with donors early in the month at the Palm Beach, Florida, home of billionaire investor John Paulson. That gathering was Trump’s answer to a March event with former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, where the Biden campaign reported raising $26 million. Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said April’s haul “is giving us the resources necessary to invest in opening offices, hiring organizers and communicating across our battleground states in order to mobilize the coalition of voters who will decide this election.” The president’s team says it now has more than 150 coordinated offices with Democratic officials, and 500-plus coordinated staff in battleground states.