Huge legal fees helped the Save America PAC burn through cash, raising questions about how Trump would fund a general election campaign.
Trump's Save America PAC raised over $15 million in the first half of 2023, spent over $30 million and now has about $3.6 million
Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump covers his face from lights as he holds a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 29, 2023.Former President Donald Trump's once-formidable and lucrative political action committee is down to $3 million on hand while committees allied with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Joe Biden have well over $100 million combined ready to deploy, new data shows.
The drop in fundraising by the Trump PAC suggests the small-dollar donor operation that has helped the former president and his allies run a political fundraising juggernaut could be dwindling. "Most of the money that middle-class Americans have given to him, he's spent on his own legal fees," former New Jersey Gov. Chris ChristieChristie is among a group of candidates who, despite being down in the polls to Trump, is seeing some big-money support, according to FEC records.with billionaire industrialist Charles Koch.
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