The Republican National Committee raised $14.6 million dollars in February, the most ever for that month in a non-election year.
“This is our second highest February ever (outpaced only by 2004) and largest off-cycle year ever,” RNC National Press Secretary Cassie Smedile told the Washington Examiner. “It’s been three years since we launched the largest online fundraising apparatus ever, yet the three committees [including the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee] continue to see new enthusiasm and support for this president and his policies every day.”
The RNC also touted the party’s ability to attract small dollar and online donations, which Democratic hopefuls like Beto O’Rourke and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., have stressed as a sign of their viability.
“Nearly 60 percent of our donations came from small-dollar donors, $8.9 million,” Smedile said.
“So while 2020 Dems continue to boast about their ‘massive’ one-day seven-figure fundraising days that they haul in only because it’s their formal ‘launch’ day, Trump’s fundraising arms have repeatedly hit this number and we’ve done so without the momentum of an initial campaign launch,” she said.
The RNC released its February totals after the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced it raised a record $11.6 million in the same month.
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