Donald Trump raised $255.4 million in eight weeks as he sought to overturn election result

President Donald Trump and the Republican Party raised $255.4 million in the eight-plus weeks following the Nov. 3 election, new federal filings present, as he sought to undermine and overturn the outcomes with unfounded accusations of fraud.

Trump’s strongest fundraising got here in the instant aftermath of the election, such as after main media organizations declared on Nov. 7 that President Joe Biden had gained. But even as Trump and his authorized crew misplaced case after case — in venues together with the Supreme Court — his donors continued to give repeatedly. More than 2 million contributions flowed in to Trump, the Republican National Committee and their shared accounts from Nov. 24 by the top of 2020.

The donations had been made public over the weekend in a Federal Election Commission submitting by WinRed, the digital platform that Republicans use to course of on-line donations. Trump’s marketing campaign committee, joint committees with the RNC, and the brand new political motion committee he shaped after the election, Save America, will all file extra disclosures Sunday with extra particulars on spending and fundraising.

Trump had beforehand introduced that he and the RNC had raised $207.5 million in the primary month following the election. The new information present that his fundraising fell sharply in December in contrast with November, with an particularly notable dip after Dec. 14, the day the Electoral College formally solid its ballots to make Biden the nation’s forty sixth president and actuality could have set in for a few of Trump’s supporters in regards to the futility of the efforts to overturn the result.

In the 2 weeks main up to the Electoral College vote, Trump and the RNC had raised a mean of $2.9 million daily on-line; in the 2 weeks after, the common was $1.2 million.

In reality, Trump and the RNC had raised greater than $2 million on-line daily because the election till Dec. 14. They didn’t increase that a lot once more for the remainder of 2020 till Dec. 31, when donations spiked on the end-of-year deadline.

The new figures seize nearly all of Trump’s on-line fundraising, as he stopped elevating cash Jan. 6, the day on which he addressed a mob of supporters who then stormed the Capitol in a violent riot and on which Biden was formally ratified by Congress as the following president.

Following that riot, Trump primarily ceased sending fundraising pitches to his supporters (the RNC paused for a few week). His final marketing campaign e mail that day started, “TODAY will be a historic day in our Nation’s history.”

Still, Trump left workplace with tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} raised for his new Save America PAC, which he can use to fund a post-presidential political operation, together with journey and staffing.

But Trump nonetheless faces a wave of authorized prices, with a looming impeachment trial in the Senate set to start in somewhat greater than every week. Late Saturday, Trump abruptly parted methods with the lead lawyer, Butch Bowers, on his impeachment protection.

In his first impeachment, the RNC shouldered among the authorized bills for Trump as a result of he was the sitting president and the social gathering chief. Those prices included a $196,000 fee to Alan Dershowitz, the lawyer who served as a part of Trump’s protection crew.

It shouldn’t be clear what function the RNC will play in the upcoming impeachment, however the social gathering’s coffers did profit immensely from Trump’s aggressive fundraising as he unfold conspiracy theories about voting fraud. Some 25% of funds raised by Trump’s e mail and texting operation had been earmarked for the RNC.