Biden campaign raises $33 million after Trump debate

The campaign of the president of the United States, Joe Bidenraised more than $33 million since Thursday’s debate, despite being declared by polls and media as the loser of the face-to-face against the former president donald trump (2017-2021), according to a member of the campaign told EFE.

Biden81, has seen his candidacy weakened as a Democratic candidate for the November elections after the debate in which he appeared physically clumsy and at times hesitant, incoherent and without finishing a sentence, which has caused the polls to make it clear Republican winner.

Various figures from the Democratic Party, such as former President Barack Obama (2009-2017) or former Secretary of State and former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clintonthey have played down the matter by describing the face-to-face meeting as a “bad night.”

The aforementioned campaign member, of the 33 million raised, 26 million come from small donations. And nearly half of that $26 million came from Americans who decided to help the campaign for the first time.

The day of the debate, June 27, was the biggest day for small-dollar donations since Biden launched his reelection campaign in April 2023. The day after the debate, June 28, was the second-biggest day for independent donations, according to the campaign.

In addition to these small contributions, Biden continued to court big donors in recent days with fundraisers in New York and New Jersey.

At a private dinner Saturday night at the home of New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy alone, Biden raised $3.7 million, according to The New York Times.

At these fundraisers, Biden tried to reassure nervous donors after the debate criticism and assure them that, although the night did not go well, he has no intention of withdrawing from the campaign and can beat Trump in the November elections.

In USABig donors play a crucial role, as presidential campaigns typically spend millions of dollars on television ads and staff deployed across the country, especially in key states.

Given their weight, Democratic donors, along with Biden, are the only ones who could end his candidacy if they decided to withdraw their financial support, something that has not happened so far.