Trump's campaign reports raising $331 million in year's 2nd quarter, beating Biden's haul

NEW YORK -- NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump 's run says it outraised President Joe Biden successful the year's 2nd quarter, with a reported haul of $331 million.

That fig bests the $264 cardinal that Biden's reelection campaign and the Democratic National Committee reported raising implicit the aforesaid play earlier Tuesday, eliminating Biden's currency vantage and perchance undercutting Biden's efforts to calm fears wrong his enactment aft past week’s disastrous statement performance, which has prompted calls for him to measurement aside.

Trump's full includes $111.8 cardinal that the run says it raised successful June. That sum is little than the $127 cardinal Biden reported raising past month, which includes much than $33 cardinal connected the time of the statement and successful its aftermath.

But Trump's run reports that it ended the 4th with $284.9 cardinal currency connected hand, compared with $240 cardinal reported by Biden.

“President Trump’s run fundraising cognition is thriving time aft time and period aft month," Trump run elder advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles said successful a statement, which noted that the Biden campaign's acold higher spending connected advertizing has not seemed to determination the needle.

“This fundraising momentum is apt to turn adjacent much arsenic we caput into a world-class normal and spot the Democrats proceed their circular firing squad successful the aftermath of Biden’s statement collapse,” they added.

Biden run manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez had called his totals “a testament to the committed and increasing basal of supporters lasting firmly down the president.”