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Donald J. Trump’s marketing campaign advisers informed donors throughout a presentation at a Republican National Committee retreat on Saturday that Mr. Trump’s marketing campaign and the party had been projected to lift $76.2 million in April, in accordance with two individuals who attended the briefing.
Mr. Trump’s three prime advisers — Susie Wiles, Chris LaCivita and Tony Fabrizio — briefed donors, offered a slide present and took questions afterward, the attendees stated. The attendees weren’t approved to talk publicly concerning the occasion, which was a closed-door briefing and gathering for party donors.
Mr. Trump’s advisers offered a bullish case for the candidate that included the opportunity of increasing the electoral map to incorporate the Democratic-leaning states of Minnesota and Virginia. They additionally famous that Mr. Trump has remained largely forward in polls even whereas being outspent by President Biden, simply as the previous president was outspent within the major by his rivals.
The Federal Election Commission is not going to obtain fund-raising studies till later this month, that means the numbers can’t be verified till then. In March, Mr. Trump and his allied teams reported elevating $65.6 million — a major quantity, however nonetheless effectively under what President Biden and his affiliated exterior teams have raised.
The donor occasion comes at a extremely uncommon juncture within the 2024 marketing campaign. Mr. Trump is each the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee and in addition spending 4 days per week in a Manhattan courtroom in a felony trial associated to falsified enterprise data meant to hide hush-money funds made to a porn star within the 2016 marketing campaign.
Mr. Trump was scheduled to talk to donors noon on Saturday. A spokesman for Mr. Trump didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The slide present presentation included three totally different electoral faculty maps, the attendees stated. The first was dismissed as “the media’s model,” which included seven swing states: Nevada, Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina throughout the Southwest and the Sun Belt, plus Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin within the industrial north.
A second slide described “the precise present actuality” as solely having three swing states: Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
And a 3rd slide described an “expanded actuality” wherein each Minnesota and Virginia could be in play for Mr. Trump — an bold view of states not extensively seen as among the many best, however wherein the Trump crew insists the previous president has gained floor.
Campaign officers additionally outlined how Mr. Trump could be spending two upcoming Wednesdays — the lone days when his felony trial just isn’t scheduled to be in session — with fund-raising occasions in Ohio and Kentucky on May 15 and a visit to Texas on May 22.
Mr. Trump’s advisers additionally described a few of their technique for the final election within the presentation, together with reaching 2016 ranges of assist with white voters and increasing assist amongst Black and Latino voters, notably amongst city males.
The marketing campaign strategists additionally outlined a plan to forestall the sorts of losses that occurred in 2022 which were linked to the difficulty of abortion and the backlash from the Supreme Court’s overturning of federal abortion rights earlier than the midterm elections.
Mr. Trump has proudly claimed possession of the top of Roe v. Wade because the president who appointed a conservative supermajority to the best courtroom within the nation. But he has struggled to reply questions on it since, waffling in discussions with advisers about whether or not to again a nationwide ban, earlier than finally saying in a video he posted a couple of weeks in the past that it’s as much as states to resolve deal with the difficulty.
