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A leading Super PAC backing former President Donald Trump’s 2024 White House bid, Make America Great Again Inc., reports raising $104 million in the second quarter of 2024 fundraising, which ran from April to June.
Additionally, MAGA Inc. noted that it has close to $114 million in cash in numbers initially disclosed to Fox News on Friday.
The announcement from MAGA Inc. comes a week and a half after Trump’s campaign revealed that it and the Republican National Committee raised an incredible $331 million over the previous three months, surpassing the enormous $264 million that the Democratic National Committee and President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign received during the same period.
A portion of Trump’s haul came from a fundraising boom that followed the former president’s historic guilty verdicts in his criminal trial this spring.
The Super PAC declared a month ago that it would assist the former president with a $100 million summertime advertising campaign in the crucial battleground states.
This coincides with a recent Pew Research Center survey showing Trump to be ahead of Biden despite the latter’s poor performance in the debate last month.
As to the poll, Trump’s approval rating stands at 44%, while Biden’s is at 40%. Notably, Trump has a double-digit lead over Biden on three crucial concerns.
Approximately 68% of participants informed Pew Research that they are typically dissatisfied with the presidential options available to them.
The Pew study, which was released on Thursday, is the first to be released following Biden’s disorganized and occasionally incomprehensible performance during the first 2024 presidential debate.
Trump has an advantage over Biden because of his hegemonic stance on three crucial issues facing voters: immigration, the economy, and international relations.
Regarding immigration policy, Trump leads Biden by 17 points (52–35%), economic policy by 14 points (54–40%), and foreign policy by 10 points (49–39).
President Joe Biden has declared that he is staying in the presidential race against former President Donald Trump, but that does not appear to be what voters want.
A Rasmussen Reports poll that was shared on Friday is disastrous news for both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. The poll showed that 55 percent of those asked want the president to get out of the presidential election. Another 50 percent said that Democrats should pick someone new, not Harris, as his replacement.
“Importantly, nearly half (48%) of Democratic voters at least somewhat agree that Biden should step aside and let the Democratic Party choose another candidate,” the poll said.
Another poll, from Cygnal, was also tragic news for the Democrats as voters scorched the president’s debate performance and showed no confidence in the vice president.
“Post-debate, we’ve seen the largest single month-over-month movement towards Republicans across-the-board, from R+0 to R+4, in the history of our national polling,” Cygnal President Brent Buchanan said. “President Biden’s image worsened to 62% having an unfavorable view of him after 67% of respondents said they watched his disastrous debate performance.”
“Trump’s performance earned him 4 points of undecided debate-watchers and another 3 points from those who were Biden supporters heading into the debate. There’s little question this has further eroded the political environment for Democrats,” he said.
But even as his polling is dismal, the president has maintained that he is not going to step aside.
Biden had another gaffe when he appeared at a rally in Wisconsin to declare that he is still the presidential nominee of the Democrat Party.
“There’s been a lot of speculation: What’s Joe going to do? Is he going to stay in the race? Is he going to drop out?” he said to the crowd in a 17 minute speech.
“Here’s my answer: I’m running and going to win again. I’m the nominee of the Democratic Party. You voted for me to be your nominee — no one else. Some folks don’t seem to care who you voted for. Guess what? They are trying to push me out of the race. Let me say this as clearly as I can: I’m staying in the race,” Biden said.
