Donald J. Trump’s campaign advisers told donors during a presentation Saturday at a Republican National Committee training camp that Trump’s campaign and party will He said he expected to raise $76.2 million.
Trump’s three top advisers, Susie Wiles, Chris Lacivita and Tony Fabrizio, briefed donors, presented a slideshow and then took questions, attendees said. Participants were not allowed to speak publicly about the event, which was a private information session and rally for party donors.
Mr. Trump’s advisers laid out bullish arguments for the candidate, including the possibility of expanding the electoral map to include Democratic-leaning states of Minnesota and Virginia. They also note that Trump is generally leading in the polls, even though he is trailing President Biden in the polls, just as President Biden outperformed his rival in the primaries. also mentioned.
The Federal Election Commission won’t receive fundraising reports until later this month, meaning it won’t be able to confirm the numbers until then. In March, Trump and his allies reported raising $65.6 million, a significant amount but still far less than what President Biden and his affiliated outside groups had raised. There is.
This donor event comes at a very unusual time for the 2024 campaign. Trump, the Republican nominee, is in a Manhattan courtroom in a criminal case related to falsifying business records aimed at concealing hush money paid to a porn star during his 2016 campaign. I spend 4 days a week.
Trump was scheduled to speak to donors at noon Saturday. Trump’s press secretary did not respond to a request for comment.
The slideshow presentation included three different Electoral College maps, attendees said. The first was dismissed as a “media version,” but included seven swing states in the Southwest and Sunbelt: Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina, as well as Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin in the industrial North. It was.
The second slide explains that the “current reality” includes only three battleground states: Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
And the third slide describes the “extended reality” that both Minnesota and Virginia, which are not widely seen as the most competitive states, will be favorable to Trump. , the Trump campaign’s ambitious take on the former president’s claims to be competitive. Expanded the ground.
Campaign officials also said Trump will hold fundraisers in Ohio and Kentucky on May 15 and visit Texas on May 22, a lonely state with no criminal trial scheduled. He also outlined how he would spend his days. .
In their presentations, Trump’s advisers pointed to the current election cycle, including his support among white voters reaching 2016 levels and growing support among black and Latino voters, especially men in urban areas. He also explained some of the strategies aimed at achieving this goal.
Campaign strategists also outlined plans to prevent losses like the one that occurred in 2022 related to the abortion issue and the backlash caused by the Supreme Court’s overturning of federal abortion rights before the midterm elections.
Trump proudly claimed that as the president who appointed a conservative supermajority to the nation’s highest court, he was responsible for ending Roe v. Wade. However, he has since struggled to answer questions on the issue, floundered in debates with advisers about whether he would support a national ban, and ultimately clarified the issue in a video he posted a few weeks ago. He said it was up to the states to decide how to deal with it.
