Trump in 'full sprint' to close Biden's money lead as legal bills mount

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65% : (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post)Donald Trump is in a "full sprint" to narrow President Biden's substantial fundraising advantage, and talked to or met with big-money donors almost every day this week ahead of a planned blowout gala in Palm Beach on Saturday night, people familiar with his efforts said.
65% : In recent weeks, Trump has spent time meeting with donors almost every day, people close to the former president said.
64% : Now that the RNC and Trump campaign have joined forces, "the finance side of the table is as unified as I have ever seen it since the reelection campaign of president George W. Bush," said Brian Ballard, a top Florida lobbyist who is helping Trump raise money.
58% : Donald Trump acknowledges the crowd after speaking at a campaign rally in Green Bay, Wis., on April 2, 2024.
54% : Trump is closely tracking who is attending the fundraiser Saturday, who has given the maximum and how much has been raised, according to a person who spoke to him recently.
54% : "For the joint fundraising committee for Trump to come right behind [the Democrats' New York event] and raise well over 50 percent more - that sends a message to Republican donors who may be trying to decide how much they're going to play this year that they've turned this thing around rapidly.
52% : This weekend's dinner in Palm Beach is expected to raise about $50 million, people close to Trump said.
52% : The first $6,600 from each check goes to the Trump campaign, the next $5,000 to the leadership PAC that has been covering legal bills for Trump and some of his associates, and the next $413,000 to the RNC.
51% : The former president told donors during a call Friday afternoon that this weekend's event would bring in double the $25 million Democrats said they raised during a recent New York fundraiser with Biden and former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, according to two people familiar with Trump's remarks on the Friday call.
46% : The broader Biden effort ended the month with $192 million in cash on hand, more than double what Trump controlled.
46% : Reports filed in January showed that two of Trump's committees, the Save America leadership PAC and the Make America Great Again PAC, spent $55.6 million on legal bills in 2023 as Trump fights felony charges in four criminal cases.
45% : Before Trump joined forces with the RNC to raise money through the new joint fundraising committee, he was leaning heavily on his own small-dollar donors to help pay his legal bills through his own committees.
44% : Trump has recently lured back some of the billionaires who backed away from supporting him because of his legal woes and role in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol.
37% : "Biden's team said Friday it was not worried about Trump's major Palm Beach fundraiser, which includes many donors who will max out their ability to give for the rest of the cycle - though they can still give unlimited sums to third-party groups supporting Trump.
34% : Donors raising money for Trump want to capitalize as quickly as possible on the perceived weaknesses of Biden's candidacy and the current political environment where Trump is edging out his opponent in recent swing state polls, according to several people familiar with the party's high-dollar push.
24% : Trump campaign aides have said that the RNC will not pay any of Trump's legal fees - a promise meant in part to assuage high-dollar donors who want to ensure their donations are used primarily to defeat Biden.
14% : "Our digital online fundraising continues to skyrocket, our major donor investments are climbing, and Democrats are running scared of the fundraising prowess of President Trump," Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung said in a statement.

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