The Biden campaign has announced fundraising totals for the month of March that absolutely swamp the totals announced by the Trump campaign. Numbers from both camps include fundraising at both the campaign itself and related political party and fundraising organizations.
The Biden camp announced this weekend a March total of $90 million, which is tens of millions of dollars ahead of the Trump team’s total from the month of just past $65 million. In March, the current president’s re-election campaign hosted a massively successful fundraiser in New York City featuring Biden himself alongside former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, who gathered together at the well-known city’s Radio City Music Hall. Trump was expected to host an even more financially ambitious fundraiser the same weekend that Biden’s campaign released these latest numbers, though that’s presumably not going to be enough to reverse Trump’s apparent struggles with everyday donors.
Democrats often share strong fundraising totals — and in recent years, those numbers have translated into electoral success, whether Democrats’ surprising (to some) persistence in the 2022 midterm elections or Biden winning at all in the 2020 presidential race.
This time around, with Biden and Trump both already their respective political parties’ presumptive presidential nominees for this year, polling is mixed. Trump leads in some — though by generally small margins, and Biden also leads in some, notching particularly notable leads per some polling in demographic groups like women and, more specifically, suburban women. Data from polling by Quinnipiac University even showed Biden with a lead among seniors, a group semi-frequently associated with support for Republican political causes.
