Harris, Trump Head To California To Court Big-Money Donors
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🗓️ 6 June 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign rode his felony conviction to a banner fundraising day last week, raking in more than 50 million dollars within 24 hours of the verdict, according to aides. Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are in California this week to court big donors to grow their campaign war chests with the November election less than six months away. Meanwhile, both campaigns have reportedly seen a significant decline in small-dollar contributions during this election cycle. Arjun Singh, a podcast producer with the investigative outlet The Lever, explains the state of fundraising in the race so far.
And in headlines: The Georgia Court of Appeals said prosecutors cannot move forward with Trump’s election interference trial until it decides whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can stay on the case, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for a global ban on fossil fuel advertising to combat climate change, and Senate Republicans voted to block a bill that would have protected access to contraception.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, June 6th. I'm Prianka Airebindi. |
| 0:08.9 | And I'm Juanita Tulliver, and this is What a Day, the show where we're feeling patriotic about the 20 foot |
| 0:13.8 | inflatable IUD Americans for contraception erected outside of Washington DC's |
| 0:18.3 | Union Station on Wednesday. Yes I am going out there to salute the giant IUD. |
| 0:23.3 | Thank you for your service. |
| 0:25.4 | On today's show, Senate Republicans blocked a bill protecting access to contraception. |
| 0:35.8 | Plus, we look at election results from this week's primaries. |
| 0:38.7 | But first, former President Donald Trump's whopping 34 felony convictions propelled his campaign to a banner |
| 0:45.0 | fundraising day. According to Trump AIDS, the campaign raised 53 million |
| 0:50.3 | dollars in the first 24 hours after the guilty verdict alone |
| 0:54.1 | bringing the total fundraising tally for the month of May up to 141 million dollars. |
| 0:59.6 | To put that into context back in April the month before, Trump's campaign reported that it raised $76 million total. |
| 1:06.7 | Thus far in the election cycle, Trump has lagged behind President Joe Biden's campaign in terms of fundraising, |
| 1:12.4 | but these new numbers along with returning |
| 1:14.4 | mega donors who once distanced themselves from the former president could end up changing |
| 1:18.9 | things. |
| 1:19.9 | According to the nonprofit open secrets, in the 2022 election cycle, more than 2,000 |
| 1:24.8 | Super PACs reported receipts of over a billion dollars. And that was just the |
| 1:29.1 | midterms. Though they aren't technically allowed to coordinate with the |
| 1:32.0 | campaign, they are allowed to support and there are no limits for what they're able to raise. |
| 1:37.0 | I just want to emphasize no limits because what these super PACs do is they get a lot of their money from massive corporations and |
| 1:44.3 | all true wealthy people who as a result have an outsized impact on our elections. |
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