Biden's campaign committee raised nearly $20 million after touting big haul
Joe Biden’s campaign raised $19.9 million from April through June — less than his total as one of a dozen-plus candidates in an open primary four years ago.
President Joe Biden’s campaign committee raised $19.9 million from April through June — less than his total as one of a dozen-plus candidates in an open primary four years ago, though his political operation says it also raised an additional $52 million for Democratic Party groups.
The fundraising report underscores how Biden and his team have not yet fully engaged on the 2024 campaign trail, and how they are leaning on the Democratic National Committee as the early staging ground for next year’s campaign efforts. Just four people were reported on the president’s campaign payroll: campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez, deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks, spokesperson Kevin Munoz and general counsel Jennifer Maury Riggan.
Biden’s campaign, the DNC and a joint fundraising effort that includes every state Democratic Party organization in the country announced Friday that they raised a combined $72 million over the second quarter, but the campaign notably did not explain how that money was split up across those groups.
The almost $20 million that flowed to the campaign directly puts Biden slightly ahead of what former President Donald Trump raised into his campaign committee over the same period, and behind what Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis raised in less time as a declared candidate.
It’s also a few million shy of the amount Biden raised in the second quarter of 2019, when he raised $22 million while duking it out for the Democratic presidential nomination amid a crowded field. And it’s a far cry from the $46 million then-President Barack Obama’s campaign committee raised during the equivalent quarter of his reelection bid 12 years ago.
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