Former President Donald J. Trump’s campaign announced Friday night that it had raised about $53 million in the 24 hours since Mr. Trump’s felony conviction, breaking an online record for the Republican Party and offering an early sign of how much his base has rallied around him.
In a statement Friday morning, the campaign said that within hours of the ruling, the amount raised had reached nearly $35 million. Later that day, the campaign announced that it had raised another $18 million in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to $52.8 million.
The campaign said earlier in the morning that about 30 percent of online donors were new to the party’s online giving platform, WinRed, providing a valuable infusion of new funds that the former president can put to use in the coming months.
The Trump campaign had previously said the figure was double the previous record on WinRed, and the one-day sales far surpassed the $4 million raised when Trump’s mugshot was made public after he was detained awaiting indictment in Atlanta in 2023.
The totals won’t be known until the elections committee and WinRed file paperwork with the Federal Election Commission in the coming months.
Money has been one of Biden’s strengths so far in the campaign. Since Trump emerged as the Republican nominee, Biden’s campaign has run ads in key battleground states while Trump is off television. Post-conviction money could help Trump close the gap on the Democratic incumbent.
The amount raised in one day far eclipsed the $26 million the Biden campaign announced within 24 hours of selecting Kamala Harris as his running mate four years ago.
“Biden and his Democratic allies are turning our justice system into a political tool, and Americans across the country have had enough,” top Trump advisers Suzie Wiles and Chris LaCivita said in a joint statement.
In April, Trump’s campaign, working with the Republican National Committee, said it had raised $76.2 million, surpassing for the first time the $51 million Biden raised with the Democratic National Committee.
Convictions also appear to lead to increased donations to Democrats, but to a much smaller extent.
ActBlue, which processes online donations for Democrats, recorded three of the four largest hours of donations in all of 2024 on Thursday night following the guilty plea, totaling about $1.3 million in one hour, according to the company’s online ticker.
