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Former President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign has gotten off to a rocky start, and new fundraising documents obtained by NBC News underline his struggles to raise cash as he attempts a third White House bid.
According to the report, Trump's 2024 campaign raised just $9.5 million over the final six weeks of 2022, which was actually less money than he raised over the six weeks prior to announcing his candidacy.
GOP operatives who spoke with NBC News said that there were many factors involved in the lackluster numbers, including "Trump's decision to launch in the shadow of a tough midterm election for the GOP, donor fatigue and his soon-to-end absence from the social media giant Facebook."
GOP consultant Eric Wilson said that the former president's decision to beg for cash right after an election where his hand-picked candidates crashed and burned was a particularly ill-advised decision.
READ MORE: Capitol-storming extremist groups raked in millions through this crowdfunding site last year
"If you want a big fundraising pop when you announce your campaign, you don’t do it right after an election where all your donors are burned out from being bombarded by fundraising asks and you don’t have a great track record to show for it," he said.
Trump isn't sitting still, however, as his campaign has recently hired the firm Campaign Inbox in a bid to boost small-dollar donations, and NBC News notes that he hasn't yet launched a time-tested mail fundraising operation that has hauled in big money for him in the past.
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Revealed: Extremist groups raked in millions through this crowdfunding site last year
January 31, 2023
Far-right and domestic extremist groups raked in $6.2 million from crowdfunding sites last year, according to a new study from the Anti-Defamation League reported by USA TODAY on Tuesday — and from one crowdfunding site in particular.
The study tracked the fundraising of 324 extremist groups. Among them were far-right militias who helped storm the Capitol in the January 6 attack like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers; white supremacist groups like the surviving chapters of the Ku Klux Klan; and the Radical Black Hebrew Israelites, an anti-Semitic and anti-white movement that holds Black Africans as the true Israelites of the Bible and modern Jews to be imposters.
"Researchers tracked campaigns across 10 different crowdfunding sites. Most were housed on GiveSendGo, a 'Christian crowdfunding' website founded in 2014. GiveSendGo campaigns accounted for $5.4 million of the total fundraising tallied by the group," said the report. "As USA TODAY reported in 2021, participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection have used GiveSendGo and other crowdfunding sites to raise money for their legal bills and other expenses."
According to the report, $4.75 million of the total haul were related to supporting Capitol insurrectionists. These donations mostly go through GiveSendGo because the much more prominent GoFundMe banned campaigns related for travel to political events with a "risk for violence."
READ MORE: 'Bad from the start': Former Trump official mocks 'low energy' 2024 campaign
This is not the only case of GiveSendGo being used to fringe causes.
In 2021, another report revealed that anti-vaxxers used the platform at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to "monetize" their activities, raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars from supporters. That same year, another data breach revealed that police officers were using it to support the legal expenses of Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse, who was ultimately acquitted of charges for fatally shooting people during police brutality protests.
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Former Trump official Alyssa Farah Griffin on Tuesday ridiculed her one-time boss for the lackluster start to his 2024 run for the presidency.
Appearing on CNN, Griffin said former President Donald Trump's campaign so far appears to be centered all around the personal wrongs he feels he's suffered rather than any attempt to solve problems in America.
"You don't want your elected officials to be running on a message of 'I am angry' -- and not angry over righteous things, you know, poverty, homelessness, whatever it might be, but angry because of his own personal grievances that he didn't win the election in 2020," she said. "This has been a bad launch from the start for Trump."
Griffin was then asked to elaborate on why she thought Trump's campaign launch had been so bad.
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"Low energy," she said. "We all watched the launch that day, and it didn't come with a lot of fanfare, it took him over two months to even do a campaign event... he can't pull the audience he once did."
She cautioned, however, that Trump was still maintaining a lead in many polls of Republican primary voters, and that it would take an actual Republican challenging him to knock him off his perch.
Watch the video below or at this link.
'Bad from the start': Former Trump official mocks 'low energy' 2024 campaign www.youtube.com
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