President Joe Biden’s marketing campaign has amassed $155 million in money readily available for the 2024 election, far exceeding the in-hand whole for his Republican opponent, Donald Trump.

The president raised $53 million alone final month, which was the strongest grassroots fundraising month because the marketing campaign launched, in accordance with marketing campaign officers. Amongst these efforts was a contest for supporters to attend a fundraiser on March 28 in New York with Biden, Barack Obama and Invoice Clinton that raised $4 million final month.

“The passion we’re choosing up as we go across the nation is actual,” Biden stated in a radio interview with WNOV 860 in Wisconsin final week. “We have raised an entire lot of cash. We have now 1.5 million donors, together with 500,000 are model new, they’re small donors; 97% of the donations underneath $200.”

Each Biden and Trump clinched their social gathering nominations final week, establishing a 2024 rematch.

Trump’s February figures haven’t been launched. By the tip of January, his two main committees had simply $36.6 million in money readily available, and people committees collectively spent greater than they took in that month. A serious driver of these prices was thousands and thousands of {dollars} in authorized charges from Trump’s myriad court docket instances. The figures are solely a partial snapshot of the Trump operation’s funds as a result of different branches will not must disclose their numbers till April.

Biden’s money readily available whole is the best amassed by any Democratic candidate in historical past throughout this level within the marketing campaign, the marketing campaign stated. Emails to Biden supporters that centered on issues over Trump helped drive up help final month.

“Whereas Joe Biden and Democrats proceed to place up historic grassroots fundraising numbers, Donald Trump and the RNC are in monetary disarray,” stated Jaime Harrison, chief of the Democratic Nationwide Committee. “Our grassroots supporters know that the stakes of this 12 months couldn’t be increased, they usually’re chipping in like our democracy is on the road — as a result of it’s.”