The Trump campaign said that it and its allied groups had raised $139 million in July, an enormous sum — but well short of the $200 million Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign said it brought in amid a huge burst of enthusiasm about her candidacy.
The sum cited by the Trump campaign Thursday sent it and its allies into August with $327 million in their bank accounts. It makes July one of the Trump team’s strongest fundraising months to date, just off the sum raised in May, when Trump’s supporters responded to his felony conviction with an outpouring of donations totaling $141 million.
After collecting $112 million in June, the Trump team saw donations tick up in July as Trump survived an assassination attempt, was formally nominated at the Republican convention in Milwaukee and picked JD Vance to be his running mate — events that are sure to have motivated his donors and supporters.
The Harris campaign had not announced its own numbers as of Thursday afternoon. But based on previous self-disclosures, the month of July will be a study in sudden reversals.
Fundraising was said to have plummeted in the first three weeks of the month, in the aftermath of Biden’s disastrous debate, although precise figures were not known. But after Biden dropped out of the race July 21, the fundraising spigot was opened wide: The Harris campaign said it raised $200 million in just seven days after Biden ended his reelection bid. That was more than Biden’s haul in the first three months of the year.
July is set to be the second-straight month that Democrats had outraised the Trump team. In June, when Biden was still atop the ticket, his campaign raised $127 million and ended the month with $240 million on hand, all before the history-making events that would unfold in July.
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
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