U.S. President Donald Trump’s re-election
campaign raised 10 million dollars in the first quarter of the year, leaving
his re-election operation with 28 million dollars in cash, his campaign h
re-election campaign as said.
Trump spent 3.9 million dollars
in the first quarter.
Trump has opted – unlike
presidents before him – to begin actively fundraising in the early part of his
first term.
He could use some of the money
which he has already raised to help Republicans in the upcoming midterm
election in November.
In addition to raising money for
his own campaign, Trump has also collected funds for joint efforts with the
Republican National Committee, which uses that money to help congressional
candidates.
His re-election campaign finished
2017 with 22 million dollars in cash.
During the first quarter of the
year, Trump spent about 834,000 dollars on legal expenses – down from the 1.1
million dollars he spent in each of the previous two quarters, according to
disclosures filed with Federal Election Commission.
Trump’s campaign has used
millions of his campaign cash in the past year to pay legal fees – including
some fees associated with responding to the Russia investigation being
conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
His campaign spent over three
million dollars in 2017 in legal fees.
In addition to legal fees, he has
also used that money to keep a small campaign staff, to fund campaign rallies
and to pay for digital advertising focused on his supporters.
Trump filed for re-election the
day he took office, an unusual move for an incumbent president.
Traditionally, incumbent
presidents have waited until after their second year in office to begin their
re-election campaign.
Trump will stand for re-election in
November 2020.
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