And on Friday night, the Trump campaign announced an update: nearly $53 million raised within 24 hours of the verdict through its virtual online fundraising platform.
The crusade touted that the fundraiser “nearly doubled the largest day ever recorded for the Trump crusade on the WinRed platform” and noted that the guilty verdicts “sparked the MAGA movement like never before. “
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Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower on Thursday, May 30, 2024, after being found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying records in the first degree. (Felipe Ramales for Fox News Digital)
The surge in contributions comes as Trump seeks to close the fundraising gap with President Biden as they face off in a 2024 election rematch.
“Just minutes after the sham trial verdict was announced, our virtual fundraising formula was defeated with support,” Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, senior advisers to the Trump campaign, wrote on a Friday morning.
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They noted that “not only the historic number, but 29. 7% of donors [on Thursday] were new donors to the WinRed platform. “
And referring to the fall election, LaCivita and Wiles reiterated that “President Trump is fighting to save our country and that November 5 is the day that Americans will give the genuine verdict. “
Former President Donald Trump speaks at Trump Tower on Friday, May 31, 2024, in New York City. A day after a New York jury found Donald Trump guilty on 34 counts, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee addressed the conviction and its most likely attempt. to present his crusade in a new light. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)
Minutes after the verdict was read in the first trial against a president or former president in the history of the country, Trump’s team appealed to his supporters to raise money.
“Frifinish: Is This the End of America?” Trump asked in the email: “I have been convicted in an impeachment trial rigged by a witch hunt.
“My deadline to raise month-end fundraisers is in DAYS!”Trump noted in the email, which included an image of the former president calling him a “political prisoner. “
WinRed, the GOP’s online fundraising platform used, among others, through the Trump campaign, closed its doors less than an hour after the verdict.
Former President Trump appears in court for his secret trial in Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024, in New York City. (Steven Hirsch-Pool/Getty Images)
Chris LaCivita, a senior adviser to Trump’s campaign, pleaded with donors who found a WinRed error message to sign up for Trump’s text message list or to log back in and check again.
“If you’re one of the millions of American patriots who need to donate to Donald Trump’s crusade and you get an error message from @WINRED. . . Don’t give up! Reconnect and check again! or text TRUMP to 88022. “LaCivita wrote in a tweet.
Biden’s crusade temporarily pounces on Trump’s trial to blame the verdicts
The Trump crusade’s online page also directed donors to Anedot, another fundraising platform used during the Republican crusades.
Trump’s team also threw a cautionary shot at troubled Republican campaigns, urging them not to try to raise money from the former president’s conviction, to prevent the “diversion” of donations from Trump’s coffers.
Meanwhile, the former president’s main investigation drafts a memo on the eve of the verdict, stating that a conviction would have no electoral consequences.
Trump will hold three major fundraisers in California late next week.
President Biden speaks at a crusade rally at Girard College on May 29, 2024, in Philadelphia. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris used the rally to launch a nationwide crusade to woo Black voters. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Biden’s re-election crusade also temporarily introduced fundraising appeals following the verdict.
“Although a jury today found that Donald Trump is to blame, there is only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: through the ballot box,” Biden’s crusader wrote in a fundraising text to supporters Thursday night.
And he insisted that “if you’ve been waiting for the best time to make your first donation to Joe Biden’s re-election campaign, we’re here to tell you it’s the big day. “
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Trump is taking aim at his fundraising gap with Biden. In April, his crusade and the Republican National Committee surpassed Biden’s crusade and the Democratic National Committee for the first time.
Even as Trump ramped up his fundraising, Biden’s campaign still had a monetary value of between $84 million and $49 million at the end of April.
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