TRENDING: Ron DeSantis Raises $20 Million in First Six Weeks as a Presidential Candidate - By Roundup Newswires Editor Brian Harrod

 

Gov. Ron DeSantis raised upward of $20 million in the first six weeks of his presidential campaign. The DeSantis campaign compared its opening quarter totals to Trump’s first quarter this election cycle, when Trump raised $14.5 million .

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The announcement by the DeSantis campaign comes as former President Donald Trump’s team announced Wednesday it brought in $35 million during the second quarter, which was split between the presidential campaign and the former president’s leadership PAC.

CNN

The DeSantis campaign highlighted in a release shared first with Fox News that their haul was the "largest first-quarter filing from any non-incumbent Republican candidate in more than a decade." And they added that it "bests the $18.3 million former president and quasi-incumbent Donald Trump's campaign raised during his first two fundraising quarters as a candidate ($3.8 in Q4 2022 and $14.5 in Q1 2023)."

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