I’m going to crow again so if you find it offensive be warned. I have said continuously and I say again:
Biden’s budding behemoth, Trump’s legal spending and
other takeaways from campaign finance reports
The major presidential candidates latest filings hardly could have been more different from one another.
Donald Trump is spending as much on legal bills as he is on campaigning. Joe Biden, meanwhile, is building a reelection behemoth.
…the two aren’t even in the same ballpark. A PAC controlled by Trump spent almost as much on legal bills as his campaign did on anything else — and Biden’s campaign outspent Trump’s by nearly eight-to-one.
Biden’s campaign is light years ahead of Trump’s
…just from the totals, you’d be forgiven for thinking the two men were running for different offices.
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…when it came to core campaign outlays in March, Biden outspent Trump by nearly a factor of eight. Trump’s campaign spent less last month than Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) — perhaps the most vulnerable senator from either party — did for his reelection bid.
And it’s not as simple as Biden was advertising in March, and Trump wasn’t. In other ways outlined in their reports, the incumbent’s campaign is more robust. Biden spent $2.3 million on payroll in March — nearly four times Trump’s $597,000.
Legal fees continue to suck up pro-Trump money
Trump’s leadership PAC spent nearly as much on legal bills in March as his campaign spent on everything else. …Even with all his spending, the president is still banking money for the rest of the campaign. Across his fundraising vehicles and including the Democratic National Committee, Biden had $192.9 million in cash on hand as of March 30, the new reports show. Trump, meanwhile, had $93.1 million.
A Trump collab isn’t enough for the RNC to close its money gap
The Republican National Committee raised $20 million in March, by far its best month so far. A big reason for that surge in fundraising was the committee’s ability to team up with Trump after he became the party’s de-facto nominee…
But even that influx of cash did not put the RNC in the same league as its Democratic counterpart. The Democratic National Committee raised $34 million in March and has more than double the cash on hand of the RNC: $45 million to $21 million.
That underscores how difficult it will be for the RNC to claw its way back toward any sort of financial parity. Even as the committee starts to right the ship, the Democrats’ advantage is tough to surmount. As the fall approaches, it means the DNC is likely to have more resources to boost Biden and downballot Democrats, while the RNC is more likely to be stretched thin.
