The money in Trump’s PAC, detailed in a new financial report submitted to the federal election commission on Sunday night, was largely raised through grassroots fundraising announcements begging for help with legal challenges targeting the 2020 election results. But Save America gave late last year. years out little money, reporting just $ 218,000 in trade fees to Republican online donation processor WinRed.
An affiliated joint fundraising committee – the Trump Make America Great Again committee – has also submitted its report. Recent fundraising calls from that group have said it will split the donations between Save America and the Republican National Committee, with 75 percent going to Trump’s leadership PAC and 25 percent to the RNC.
Even after donating more than $ 78 million to the RNC, Save America, and Trump’s campaign, the joint fundraising committee still has nearly $ 60 million in its coffers. Some of that money will likely go to Save America, so the $ 31.2 million in Trump’s new PAC could be the lowest of what he has at his disposal.
The former president has already used Save America to attack Republicans he considers unfaithful. The PAC’s most prominent target to date has been Rep. Liz Cheney, the chairman of the House Republican Conference and the most prominent supporter of the GOP’s impeachment. Save America ordered and circulated a poll that allegedly after its vote had challenged Cheney’s political position in Wyoming.
Trump’s greatest weapon is his megaphone. But most of all, without his Twitter account, he needs the money to fund his desired political infrastructure, ”said Matt Gorman, a veteran Republican agent.
In some of his earliest post-White House political moves, Trump backed Kelli Ward for another term as president of the Arizona Republican Party, after Ward steadfastly backed up his election plot theories in the wake of the November election. Ward narrowly won another term. He also supported former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders as she enrolled in the Republican primary for the open race for Arkansas governor, and her ointment over the incumbent Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General, both of whom are already active. goods.
“President Trump’s popularity has never been stronger than it is today, and his approval means more than perhaps any approval at some point,” a statement from Save America read after Trump’s meeting with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy last week.