In a “mad dash” to fund President Trump’s ballot legal fights, his fundraising team has quickly moved to collect “tens of millions” of dollars to pay for battles in several states.
The effort started with emails to low-dollar donors on Wednesday about this site, but today there was a morning call with major donors, and “thousands” were on the call ready to write checks and fan out to shake the bushes.
The immediate goal is to raise at least $10 million or more in the next 72 hours, said one Trump ally.
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“We are mobilizing and marshaling the full capabilities of the Trump fundraising machine to ensure we have the right personnel and resources to make this a free and fair election, devoid of any fraud and protecting the sanctity of every American voter’s constitutional right to be heard. Illegal votes negate real ones,” said Blair Brandt, a Florida GOP fundraiser and political strategist.
He also told Secrets, “We want to count every legal vote. This is not some stretched out theory. There are massive and real irregularities in the data and transparency procedures in the key swing states determining the next president for the next four years. We have to get this right if it takes the next four days.”
The effort by one of the most successful fundraising operations ever is expected to beat its work for the Trump campaign.
We are mobilizing for the legal battle. It has to be paid for. Pass it along. Get people engaged. #CountEveryLegalVote ????https://t.co/naKHTJUJmE
— Blair Brandt (@BlairBrandt) November 5, 2020
One Trump fundraiser, Bill White, said that his team has raised $800,000 in the last 24 hours from his friends and Trump allies and that the overall effort has already banked $8 million.
The effort could require double that or more. The money will fund the legal team, and their expenses, in states including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Arizona, where the focus on ballot counting is hot.
The campaign, meanwhile, has set up a hotline for voters to report examples of fraud, and it has detailed evidence of fraud and secret ballot counting.
One insider said it was a “mad rush” to raise money and find evidence because Democratic-controlled states are trying to move quickly to declare Joe Biden the winner.
“The voices out there criticizing the Trump Team’s approach as an assault on democracy are the same people, ironically, demanding less transparency and accountability in places like Pennsylvania,” said Brandt, who is the Florida co-chair of the Trump Victory Finance Committee.
