In the weeks following election day, President Trump and Republican committees and candidates raised at least $ 207 million, according to a recent document from the Federal Electoral Commission (FEC), while Trump and Republican lawmakers disputed the election results.
From November 24 to December 31, 2020, WinRed, a fundraising platform endorsed by the National Republican Committee (RNC), raised more than $ 207 million, according to an FEC file made public on Friday.
WinRed is a platform where Republican candidates can raise money – not just Trump himself. It is used by national, state and local candidates and was launched to compete with the Democratic Party’s fundraising efforts through its ActBlue platform.
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The FEC filing by WinRed preceded additional disclosures expected for Sunday by the Trump-RNC joint committees, as well as Save America, a political action committee (PAC) initiated by Trump in November days after the November 3 presidential election.
Most major media outlets called for the race for Joe Biden on November 7, while the Trump campaign continued with legal struggles to challenge the results in several states that would be rejected by the Supreme Court.
In the weeks following election day, Trump raised an average of $ 2 million a day through December 14, according to the New York Times. That was the day that the Electoral College met to formalize their votes. Fundraising then decreased to a peak at the end of the year.
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Trump himself stopped fundraising efforts on January 6 – the day protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol in a failed attempt to stop Congress from certifying the victory of the Biden Electoral College. That day, he stopped sending fundraising proposals to his supporters, while the RNC paused fundraising for about a week.
Still, Save America left Trump with tens of millions of dollars at the time Biden opened. Trump, who moved to his Mar-a-Lago resort in West Palm Beach, Florida, is free to use these funds in his post-presidential political operation, including travel and personnel, the Times reported.
He is likely to face increasing legal expenses, as the Senate impeachment trial is set to begin next week.
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It is not yet clear whether the RNC will help cover the costs of Trump’s second impeachment, although the RNC helped Trump with the first since he was the party’s president and leader at the time. This included a payment of $ 196,000 to one of Trump’s defense lawyers, Alan Dershowitz.
The RNC did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News on Sunday.