Biden Raises $383 Million in September, Breaking Monthly Record
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden raised $383 million in September, breaking the record his campaign set in August.
(Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden raised $383 million in September, breaking the monthly record his campaign set in August when it pulled in $364.5 million.
Biden announced the total, which includes his campaign and affiliated fundraising committees, in a video posted on his Twitter account Wednesday night. Bloomberg News previously reported the campaign had surpassed its August fundraising record.
Jen O’Malley Dillon, Biden’s campaign manager, said on Twitter that the campaign now has $432 million in the bank.
“I’m really humbled by it,” Biden said in the video of him calling a supporter, identified as Trimicka, and sharing the news with her.
In August, the Biden campaign and the Democratic National Committee raised $365.4 million, then a monthly record. In two months, the Biden campaign and the DNC raised $748.4 million, almost as much as the $750 million President Barack Obama raised for his entire 2008 campaign.
O’Malley Dillon said $203 million came from online donors. She said 1.1 million new donors gave last month, which brought the total to 5.5 million donors throughout the campaign.
The massive fundraising hauls for the Biden campaign and the DNC have helped reverse President Donald Trump’s financial advantage when Biden became the presumptive nominee in March. Trump’s campaign has not yet released its September totals, but in August, it raised $210 million.
Democrats around the country saw a massive influx of cash after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Biden raised more than $31 million in the day after his first debate with Trump.
The Biden campaign waited two weeks to release its September fundraising number in part because it did not want to discourage donors from continuing to give, according to three people familiar with the campaign’s thinking.
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