My colleague Jeremiah Poffthe verdict’s effect on Trump’s fundraising numbers in the aftermath of the guilty verdict, including that around $52 million of the $141 million Trump’s campaign raised in May came 24 hours after the verdict was announced. That $141 million is nearly as much as President Joe Biden raised in March and April combined.said
his fundraising platforms have seen record highs. These numbers are erasing the concerns about Trump and the Republican National Committee lagging behind Biden and the Democratic National Committee in campaign funds. The more important factor in this is the polling, though. After all, the whole point of this exercise is to try and taint Trump’s name further to voters by labeling him a convicted felon through the entire election cycle. But the early returnsMorning Consult’s latest poll ran from May 31 to June 2. It found that Trump was holding steady at 44%, as he had been for the past month. Biden, meanwhile, was down 2 points to 43%, which is around where he had been hovering for the past month.
But that would be a loss for Biden, and it is undeniable that ramping up GOP voter and donor enthusiasm when Biden was enjoying a fundraising lead and suffering from enthusiasm problems with his base is also a loss for his campaign. There is a possibility that this could backfire for Democrats in a worse way than the 2020 impeachment of Trump, which Democrats ended up mostly ignoring on the campaign trail.