President Trump’s reelection campaign did not appear fazed by the news that 2020 Democratic dropouts Sen. Amy Klobuchar and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg will endorse Joe Biden for the party’s presidential nomination.
The two former candidates, who are perceived to be ideological allies with Biden, are expected to endorse him in the lead-up to Super Tuesday. The move, however, is not worrying the president’s campaign.
“The Democrats are in chaos,” Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh told the Washington Examiner on Monday when asked about the pending endorsements. “President Trump will dominate whichever candidate is unlucky enough to emerge.”
He added, “You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to think they’re trying to steal it from Bernie.”
Klobuchar, the Democratic senator from Minnesota, announced the end of her presidential campaign earlier on Monday, while Buttigieg ceased his candidacy the day before. They dropped out following Saturday’s South Carolina primary, where Biden scored a more than 2-to-1 victory over his closest rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders, winning 48.4% of the vote to the Vermont senator’s 19.9%.
Also on Monday, the Trump campaign announced it raised $86 million in February, while Biden said on ABC’s This Week that he raised less than a quarter of that, nearly $18 million. Biden also announced that he raised $5 million in the 24 hours following the South Carolina primary. Additionally, Sanders raised $46.5 million in February, a total that dwarfed his January total, which was a previous high for him, of $25 million.
