Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee raised a record $141m in June, $10m more than Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee, in a sign of how both campaigns capitalised on the month’s tumult to fill their coffers.
The Biden campaign said it and the DNC had raised $282.1m in the second quarter. Mr Trump’s campaign and the RNC raised $266m in the same period, a sum the Trump campaign said was a record for them and a 71 per cent increase over what it had raised in the first quarter of 2020.
The duelling record hauls from the campaigns point to increasing enthusiasm ahead of the election among two groups: those who want to hand Mr Trump a second term, and those who want to see Mr Trump defeated.